Once she's *safely* in New Orleans, she escapes one evil baddie only to fall into the hands of another who recognizes the casket and gets Mary shunted off to a remote plantation. I won't go into details, but it doesn't take long for our innocent heroine to get duped and then befriended by the nicest woman ever (you just know what plans she has for Mary, don't you?). Mary finds a New Orleans address in the casket, and she's off all by herself to hunt down the family she's never known. At the same time, Mary is stunned by the news of her father's death, along with the big surprise that her *mother* is really her step-mother and wants nothing to do with Mary - she's on her own in the world. Some of her novels that earned her critical acclaim include "New Orleans Legacy" and "From Fields of God".Mary MacAllistair has been convent educated, and on her sixteenth birthday she receives the gift of a family legacy - a casket containing family treasures handed down from one Mary (or Marie) to the next. She dedicated her first historical novel "Charleston" which was a best seller, to a loan officer who had lent her money to pay her rent. She wrote her first novel "Who's That Lady in the President's Bed?" under the pseudonym of B.K. Later, an eight hour television mini-series which was based on this novel was broadcast on CBS television. This novel was translated into 18 languages. The success of the novel was so immense that it sold eight million copies in five years. Warner Books won the rights to publish this novel for $4.94 million. Despite a number of negative opinions from literary critics, this book received huge commercial success.
This romantic and historic writer authored many best-selling novels before she wrote the "Scarlet" which eventually topped the British best seller list.
After serving in the advertising department of "Life" magazine, she did various types of jobs before taking her writing assignment of ghostwriting papers for neurosurgeons. She was best known for her novel "Scarlet", the sequel to the famous novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Michel.
Alexandra Ripley ( – ) was a prominent American writer.
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