This is a story about a girl who wanted things to happen to her.Celia Garth lived in Charleston, South Carolina, during the American Revolution. She had blond hair and brown eyes and a sassy face, and she worked in a fashionable dressmaking shop.Things did happen to Celia, but not as she had plan...
This was the 2nd book in the trilogy and takes place up to and after the civil war. It is from the point of view of Corrie Mae, a "white trash" girl and Anne Larne, a plantation artistocrat and the difference in their living circumstances. There is a line in the book:"Nigger pick de cotton, nigg...
Not long before the American Revolution, Judith Sheramy, a Puritan girl from New England, rode a flatboat down the Mississippi River with her family. On the river she met an adventurer, Philip Larne -- cavalier and slave smuggler. The story of Judith and Philip is one of struggle - the passionat...
His eyes were dark with pain and as Elizabeth Herlong looked at the guest her husband had brought to dinner, she felt a tremor of recognition. But how could she have known this bearded stranger, able to walk only with the aid of a cane? Where in her sheltered existence as the wife of a Hollywoo...
Sprawling saga of the California Gold Rush, one of the most spectacular adventures in history. In just three years, San Francisco would grow from a muddy village to a rich, brawling city. Calico Palace is the story of those who found love and joy, fury and fortunes in the frenzied days of gold fe...
I haven’t got the nerve.” He walked away and began helping his men round up the mules that had broken their picket-thongs during the daybreak attack. Garnet lay on a blanket he had spread for her in the shade of a big rock. Oliver had taken off the half-breed girl’s tourniquet, and had washed the...
Beyond the beach the palms waved their fans and feathers around the hotel, which in the sunlight glittered white as the sand. The days followed one another in dazzling succession. Eleanor and Kester swam and hiked, or lay on the beach in their tremendous space of sand and sun and purple water, lo...
COACH WAS WAITING at the entrance to the alley. Celia had expected that now Darren would let her see where she was, but he hurried her inside. As the horse started Darren leaned closer to her and said in a voice she could barely hear, “We’re going to Godfrey’s. We want to give the impression that...