title: India Allan
author: Coker, Elizabeth Boatwright
description: India St. Julien was the spoiled daughter of a proud and wealthy Charleston family. The world was hers for the asking until she met Maximilian Allan, a handsome young planter from up-country South Carolina. Her family and friends considered Allan an upstart, but India knew that for her there never would be anyone else. During the stirring days that followed the firing on Fort Sumter, she eloped with him and assumed her rightful position as the mistress of his plantation.