Whispering Oaks is an historical romance novel depicting life near Atlanta, Georgia before, during and after the Civil War, into the beginning of the twentieth century. This epic story is rich with emotion and filled with appealing, intense and resolute women who were determined to preserve the spirit of the South under adverse challenges. This story, covering four generations of strong women pulling together to survive the hardships they had to endure, probes deeply into the multiple meanings of devotion and commeitment as they face their fears and yearnings and transcend their difficulties through love. Set against the dramatic changing landscape in and around Atlanta, a small town destined for greatness, this novel is a kaleidoscope of the feelings we most cherish and fear as seen through the prism of the continuing lives of Mary Rodgers, her daughters Rhoda, Martha, Sarah, and Nancy, her granddaughter Mary Beulah and her great-granddaughter Elizabeth.