Savannah Spell to Yorktown: The Complete Trilogy

ISBN-13: 9781450575874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 438 str.

Nyw Peacocke

Opis

This historical novel includes adventure and romantic triangle between a Colonial planter's daughter Kathryn and two suitors, Martin a Patriot and Loyalist Brent during the American War for Independence. Other characters include a dynamic multiracial girl, Sky, who is so poor she has no last name. Sky is orphaned when drunken seamen slaughter her mother and father, owner of a liquor still and pimp for her mother. She is left with only the clothes on her back and her grandmother's black voodoo teachings. She survives by murder and selling herself into slavery. Although love eludes her she pursues happiness in her own rainbow and her child. Nicole of Philadelphia creates a minor, second and scandalous triangle with her obsession to marry the Caldwell family's fortune and elegant mansion. Based on the era's factual history the story begins in Savannah but moves to Charleston, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Paris and London. Others also sell themselves. One, a Minister's daughter to escape her strict parents becomes pregnant by a militiaman who is killed in an Indian skirmish. Brent marries an Indian of high status in his need for Indian support in coming battles. Seldom has a romantic historical novel contained so much valid military action (see customer reviews, Amazon). Thus it appeals to all. In Charleston, the largest US surrender until World War II, marks the low point of the Patriot's cause. Eventually characters travel to Europe. Surprisingly London is a lively place either because of or in spite of England's loss. Threads of the inequality of women and the coming War Between the States are clearly exposed even at this early time. There is a similarity between these characters and the colonies gnawing the umbilical cord that binds them to mother England.