ELLA CORRIGANS despair at being jilted pales in light of what follows after she makes the hasty decision to marry a man she has long avoided. Unaware that a friends secret act of jealousy is responsible for her bitter heartache, she enters an existence never imagined during sweeter days as Mistress of her fathers Savannah River plantation - where a mystery is building around the familys phenomenal natural spring, Corrigans Pool. . . . The South is embroiled in a bloody Civil War by the time Ella discovers that Corrigans Pool, on her familys property, is much more than the exquisite pond she...

The South is embroiled in a bloody Civil War by the time Ella Corrigan discovers that Corrigans' Pool is much more than the exquisite pond, but by the time she learns its dangerous secret, she is trapped by a secret of her own, blackmailed, and powerless against one man's unspeakable evil. 430 pp.

When strangers, white Mary Kenny and "colored" Leeta Bulow, run out of bus ticket money in a small Texas town and are threatened by the bigoted sheriff, they are rescued by elderly spinster sisters, Clara and Justine Hesterwine, and taken to the sisters once opulent old mansion.
Mary and Leeta soon discover that they are not the only ones plagued by troubles; Clara and Justine have an abundance of them, the least of which is "the windmill sitter," their crazy widowed cousin, Etta Ruth Morley.
Moreover, the sisters might lose their ancestral home to a calculating banker with an eye for their...