...It seems that just recently the richest plantation of Cindy Lou became a haven of love and loyalty for Clyde Batchelor and his wife Lucy. Only a lot has changed since then: Lucy, her father’s favorite Carey, and her husband died in the merciless fire. And now Larry, Clyde’s grandson and heir, is growing up in the incomparable palace. Who knows if his trip to France will be fatal? Will she not bring him a meeting with great, all-consuming passion?..* * *The wonderful novel “Love as an Inheritance, or Steamboat Gothic” belongs to one of the famous novelists of the 20th century, F.P. Keyes, called the “princess of the genre.” Cindy Lou's plantation with her incomparable palace becomes a haven of love and loyalty for Clyde Bachelor, the novel's protagonist, and his wife Lucy. There they experience the most terrible trials of fate and the strongest feelings. There their children and grandchildren will learn true values.