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|  | | The Belle of Camden County
A happily married wife and mother in 1920s Georgia discovers she is not the biological daughter of the wealthy white couple who raised her.
Lilly Hastings is a happily married woman and a devoted mother to two young children. However, a fateful trip to St. Augustine, Florida to attend a cousin’s wedding in 1921 has set off a chain of events leading Lilly to discover that she was not born into the white upper class family who raised her and is instead the illegitimate daughter of the mixed race seamstress who was tailoring her cousin’s wedding dress.
While being of a mixed race is fairly commonplace and accepted today, in upper class white society of the Old South in the1920s, it was cause for scandal, divorce and social r | |  | | Yella Gal: Queen of the Montclair
One woman's search for identity and love in late 19th/early 20th century St. Augustine, Florida.
Welcome to St. Augustine, Florida - 1897!
The town is a top winter destination thanks to its large tourist resorts such as Henry Flagler's Ponce de Leon, the Alcazar, other smaller hotels and inns, temperate weather and its proximity to the sea.
Birdie Fairfax, a mixed raced young woman, has just been hired by the new Montclair hotel. Despite her multi-ethnic heritage, she never feels excepted by the whites, blacks or even the Dominicans in her own family.
Only the racially colorblind Newt Phillips, a white gardener at the Montclair, truly loves and accepts Birdie |
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Rovella Starr
by Carol Mitchell
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 Rovella is a beautiful woman with a cold heart whom blames herself for an unfortunate old family secret that is literally ruining her life. This secret impedes a gorgeous woman from having happiness in her childhood, and throughout her life. Dark sec |
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