Varina, Paperback by Frazier, Charles, ISBN 0062406019, ISBN-13 9780062406019, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

Forced by limited prospects to marry much-older widower Jefferson Davis, teenaged Varina Howell finds her expectations as the wife of a Mississippi landowner upended by his appointment as the leader of the Confederacy, a situation that renders her and her children fugitives in a divided and increasingly hostile nation. (historical fiction). Simultaneous.