Category: Historical Fiction Publisher: High Country Publishers, Boone, N.C.
ISBN-10: 1932157866
Type: Fiction
Pages: 250
Copyright: April 2006
The storyline takes place c1750's in England, Africa and British Colonial America - Virginia and the Carolinas - at a time when the American Colonies were just beginning to think about independence, Scottish highlanders were emigrating to the Carolinas in great numbers and slavery was an all too common practice.
Joanna Showcroft, a principled woman with a sense of adventure, has chosen to leave her ancestral home in England to live in colonial Virginia. While trying to make good a marriage that carries with it an unusual nuptial agreement, Joanna becomes embroiled in the issue of slavery, a practice she abhors. Her life is complicated by a family of Scottish highlanders who call the mountains of the western Carolina’s home, threats of murder, the need to protect friends and the attentions of several admirers.
Tralee, Ireland. September 1948.
An arrogant, and highly agitated, priest arrives home after 40 years.
Days later he's dead. Suicide? Or did his past catch up with him?
Autumn 1940. Germany invades Britain. Newport is blitzed. Danny O’Shea’s house is bombed, his wife is killed. While taking his young son Adam to neutral Ireland, they witness an attack on a German convoy. The result is brutal.
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