A young interracial couple escapes from Maryland to France in 1892, living first among artists in the vibrant Latin Quarter of Paris, and then beginning a new life as winemakers in the rugged countryside of the Languedoc Twenty-three years after the publication of his acclaimed novel Mason's Retreat and six years after The Right-Hand Shore , Christopher Tilghman returns to the saga of the Mason and Bayly families in Thomas and Beal in the Midi .
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