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Book One of The River Series The River had
Brought Him to Her --- From the belvedere of her Alabama mansion on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, Lily watched for steamboats and dreamed of the man who would one day be united with her in mind and spirit. Torn between her duty to marry the handsome young socialite of her parents choosing and her love for a mysterious riverboat captain who was far beneath her social station, Lily turned to God's Word for guidance. And as the tides of convention and the dangerous river swirled about her, she made a decision that would defy both. For
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Faith, Love, Family & Courage on the Southern Frontier Sweeping across the nineteenth Century, it tells the true story of Thomas P. Jones and his wife Lavinia Young Jones. Beginning in 1827, this multi-generational saga of love, marriage, births, deaths, recounts the perils of the Seminole War, the rising to great wealth, the plunging to poverty after the Civil War, and ultimately the rising again. Rich in detail, true in character, The Greenwood Legacy is written by an author born and bred in the South who grew up hearing these stories. Jacquelyn Cook knows these people. Thomas P. Jones, fourth son of a Coastal Georgia aristocrat who leaves his entire plantation to his first-born son, vows that none of his children will ever feel second best. He takes his meager inheritance and buys land nobody wants in the Pine Barren wilderness that lies in southwestern Georgia between Thomasville, Georgia, and Tallahassee, Florida. Lavinia Young Jones, from a social Savannah family, is his sixteen-year-old bride. As he brings her to the wilderness, Thomas questions whether or not she will be strong enough to endure, but when they have fallen, it is Lavinia's courage that brings this real family to rise again. Greenwood, their elegant Greek Revival mansion, is the centerpiece from which they build a community of charm and culture that today consists of seventy lived-in antebellum plantations on 300,000 acres, unequaled anywhere in the United States. Here, President Dwight Eisenhower hunted quail. Jacqueline Kennedy sought sanctuary on Greenwood after the assassination of President John Kennedy. In the 21st Century, hidden in virgin pines and wild orchids, Greenwood endures as will the story of Thomas and Lavinia Jones. |
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Faith, family, love, and courage in the time of war.Drawing you into the turbulent years before, during and after the Civil War, when women were helpless and men jousted for power, The Gates of Trevalyan brings vivid life to two worlds: On Trevalyan Plantation in central Georgia near the picturesque town of Madison, Jenny Mobley and aristocratic Charles King marry and build a tranquil life. In Washington City, historical figure Alexander Stephens and Elizabeth Craig, the love of his life, whirl through a society that seems to be dancing over a powder keg. Both worlds are tested as General W. T. Sherman’s Army burns its way through Georgia. As Joshua Hill bargains with Sherman to save Madison and Alexander is cast into a dungeon, Jenny must find the real source of power and face the Union Army alone. Richly detailed and intensely researched, The Gates of Trevalyan breathes the spirit of great storytelling into a fascinating era.
First Place Award Georgia Links of Interest - People and
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"In Sunrise, Jacquelyn Cook brilliantly
combines history with fiction. This makes for an enchanting love story
that will grab readers' attention and win their hearts." An unlikely marriage. A legendary mansion. An enduring legacy of love, faith and family in spite of the horrors of war. The inspiring true story behind one of the South's most famous antebellum estates and the remarkable people who built it.
Honeymooning across nineteenth century
Europe, real-life heiress Anne Tracy and millionaire railroad
baron William Butler Johnston struggle to find and declare their love.
With money enough to buy everything but happiness, they return home to
Macon, Georgia, where they build a seven-story Italianate palazzo. A
ball upon its completion is interrupted as the Civil War erupts.
While the Johnstons are overwhelmed with
conflicts on the home front, the tender love story of her brother, Edward Dorr
Tracy, Jr., and Ellen Steele of Oak Place Plantation in Huntsville,
Alabama, plays out as General Tracy becomes a hero at Vicksburg. When
Macon is crushed beneath the heel of the Occupation Army, Anne is
consumed with hatred and despair. Only the transcendent love of the
young poet she has mentored, Sidney Lanier, lifts her to hope and
happiness.
The Johnston-Felton home in Macon, Georgia,
now known as the
Hay House is open to the public.
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Sunrise ISBN 978-0-9768760-9-0
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A Romantic Family Saga of the Old South Magnolias is a four-in-one-volume novella that lets you read the "River Series" as it was meant to be: a family saga that takes maturing generations through romance, life-threatening adventure, and mystery from the Old South into the New. The story begins with Lily Edwards in the belvedere of her Eufaula, Alabama mansion (a State museum in this historically preserved town). She is daydreaming of Harrison Wingate, the mysterious steamboat captain on the Chattahoochee River below. He is far beneath her station in life in the opulent days of the 1850's, and she is torn between him and duty to marry Green Bethune, the handsome socialite of her parents’ choosing. The decision Lily makes, to follow God’s leading no matter what the cost, affects succeeding generations. In episode two, Lily becomes the secondary character as her aunt, Emma Edwards, takes center stage. At 27, Emma thinks she is at the evening of her life and no one loves her, not even God. As the War Between the States begins and the Chattahoochee is blockaded by the enemy, Emma falls in love with Jonathan Ramsey, a naval officer who promises to marry her— just as soon as the South wins the war. In the bitter days of the 1860's, the family struggles. By 1874, Lily’s brother Foy has grown into a dashing young man besought by problems of the Reconstruction. A dazzling redhead visits Eufaula, inflaming Foy’s heart. With a humorous penchant for trouble even Lily cannot straighten out, Adrianna Atherton causes a death-defying steamboat race that may cost the family everything. Meanwhile in Georgia, Libba Ramsey has been separated from her family by Sherman’s march, which burned and destroyed the State. She cannot give her love to either Daniel Marshall or Paul Morley until she has solved the mystery of who she is. Following her only clue, a turquoise mourning ring, she discovers her family in Eufaula, but a great deal more than distance has been separating them. Only if they find forgiveness and faith can they face the challenge of the New South. For Excerpt Click Here |
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Betrayed
by her first love Mignonne is guarding her heart.
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Libba Ramsey knows she will never be whole until she searches out her past.
Raised in a southern orphanage after the War Between the States, Libba
has only one memory of her early life: a recurring nightmare about
burning railroad tracks twisted around pine trees. It feeds her hatred
of the federal soldiers who destroyed her land and separated her from
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men wanted her. The
granddaughter of a distinguished senator, Adrianna had beauty, wealth
and social prestige. But her lonely heart hungered for love that would
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her heart pulsed to the rhythm of Jonathan’s words, EMMA EDWARDS - At 27, she had reached the evening of her life. Dependent upon the bounty of an uncaring and capricious sister-in-law, she feels that even God has forgotten her.... JONATHAN RAMSEY - Confederate naval officer, who with Emma, is swept suddenly into the swift-moving currents of war and danger. But is he too worried about the river to consider her, to renew her faith with his love? HARRISON WINGATE - Lily’s husband, Harrison, tall and dashing, is the quietly mysterious captain of the Wave. For Excerpt Click Here |
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The River had
Brought Him to Her --- From the belvedere of her Alabama mansion on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, Lily watched for steamboats and dreamed of the man who would one day be united with her in mind and spirit. Torn between her duty to marry the handsome young socialite of her parents choosing and her love for a mysterious riverboat captain who was far beneath her social station, Lily turned to God's Word for guidance. And as the tides of convention and the dangerous river swirled about her, she made a decision that would defy both. For
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There was no discounting those hands. Someone was determined to kill her. As the crippled Confederate
army struggled desperately on their last scrap of hope during the final
months of the Civil War, Caroline Hannah was fighting her own battle for
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