Books by Jacquelyn Cook, Historical Author

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Latest Novel: Available Now Buy *Sunrise* at Bookstores or direct from www.BelleBooks.com	Sunrise
Romantic Saga of The Old South:	Magnolias
The River Saga:	The River Between The Wind Along the River River of Fire Beyond the Searching River Rivers Rushing to the Sea
Romantic Suspense:	Image in the Looking Glass
Non-Fiction:	From Violence To Love The First Hundred Years A Tabernacle of Living Water

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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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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.

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Rivers Rushing to the Sea by Jacquelyn Cook

Betrayed by her first love Mignonne is guarding her heart.

     Mignonne Wingate, whose laughing dark eyes and porcelain skin entrance everyone she meets, is determined never to love again. But that is before a trip to the fashionable resort of Saratoga Springs, New York, where she is introduced to the Edgefield brothers.
     Cooper, dashingly handsome and recklessly wild, both attracts and frightens Mignonne. Robert is much safer, but his dutiful attendance on his ill father causes Mignonne to question his true feelings for her. Life is different north of the Mason-Dixon line, as Mignonne witnesses as well the ill-gotten prosperity of the ruthless railroad barons.
     Troubled by her adventures, will she find refuge once again at her family manor in Alabama? Will Mignonne truly be at peace by the rivers rushing to the sea?

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Beyond the Searching River by Jacquelyn Cook

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 her family.
     Without knowing who she is, Libba's life is on hold. She cannot accept the love of either of the southern gentlemen vying for her hand, and she cannot let go of the bitterness that is destroying her soul.
     Libba's one clue to her past is an ornately filigreed, turquoise mourning ring. The secrets it reveals could lead her beyond the searching river to a land of love and peace.

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River of Fire by Jacquelyn Cook
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Two men wanted her.
Only a river of fire would reveal whose love she could trust.

     The granddaughter of a distinguished senator, Adrianna had beauty, wealth and social prestige. But her lonely heart hungered for love that would endure.
     She was drawn to Foy, yet his spiritual values seemed curiously outdated. And what of Green Bethune? Dashing and debonair, he offered a world of excitement far removed from the backwater town of Eufala, Alabama.
     One choice alone would fill the void in her soul.

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The Wind Along the River by Jacquelyn Cook

". . . her heart pulsed to the rhythm of Jonathan’s words,
‘I do care,’"

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.

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The River Between by Jacquelyn Cook
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The River had Brought Him to Her ---
Would the River also Keep Them Apart?

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.

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Image in the Looking Glass by Jacquelyn Cook
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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 survival.
     No longer safe at Wesleyan Female College, Caroline was sent to stay with her mother's cousins on Looking Glass Plantation in southwestern Georgia. But something made her believe that she wasn't welcome there, not on any terms. Then the war claimed both father and fiancé, and there was nowhere else to go.
     With the South crumbling around her, uncertain even if she can trust her own family, Caroline conquers her fears through faith and love, amid the ashes and ruin of war.

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