Rarely is there a publishing event as anxiously-awaited, as talked-about, and as thrilling as this one. Backed by a blockbuster program of publicity, advertising, and promotion, Scarlett is going to be one of the books on everyone's must-have reading list. Alexandra Ripley is one of today's foremost creators of serious Southern historical fiction, and after an exhaustive search by Mitchell's estate, she was chosen to write the sequel to perhaps the greatest love story of all time.