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Authorized by the Margaret Mitchell Estate, here is the first-ever prequel to one of the most beloved and bestselling novels of all time, Gone with the Wind. The critically acclaimed author of Rhett Butlers People magnificently recounts the life of Mammy, one of literatures greatest supporting characters, from her days as a slave girl to the outbreak of the Civil War. Her story began with a miracle. On the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue, an island consumed by the flames of revolution, a senseless attack leaves only one survivoran infant girl. She falls into the hands of two French migrs, Henri and Solange Fournier, who take the beautiful child they call Ruth to the bustling American city of Savannah. What follows is the sweeping tale of Ruths life as shaped by her strong-willed mistress and other larger-than-life personalities she encounters in the South Jehu Glen, a free black man with whom Ruth falls madly in love the shabbily genteel family that first hires Ruth as Mammy Solanges daughter Ellen and the rough Irishman, Gerald OHara, whom Ellen chooses to marry the Butler family of Charleston and their shocking connection to Mammy Ruth and finally Scarlett OHarathe irrepressible Southern belle Mammy raises from birth.