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Set in the eighteenth century in Colonial South Carolina, this novel, TABITHA, tells about forbidden love amid wild and harrowing adventures. It is about the power of good against the thrust of evil. It shows the horrors of slavery and the beginning of the growth of consciousness and conscience that ultimately leads to freedom. Young men are called on to judge their own fathers and be wise enough to follow different paths.

How can we win against the might of England? We will find a way!"The time is 1772 and colonists' irritation with the Mother-Country has become anger. As months go on the anger becomes rage. When England's actions against the colonies become intolerable and war comes to men's minds, some ask, "How can we win against the might of England." Determined men answer, "We will find a way."When Anna Rose Grenville, now in the full bloom of young womanh...

What occurred in the past helps to determine our present. Secrets found in an old diary, a love unfulfilled, violence, privations of war…these are the elements of Secret Sins of the Mothers. From 1847 until late in the 20th century the story of Margaret O'Donnell unfolds and we read of the tragedy of this young, innocent girl. We also learn of the impact her life had on her descendants.

If the both of us can't be happy with these good ladies, we would have to consider our own failings to be at fault."These words from Kofi Grenville, recently returned from his music studies in Italy, to his half-brother, Lord Fredrick Grenville.In WET MOCCASINS you will meet frontier women and men who loved and cared for them, or men who used and abused them. Hardship, struggle for survival, young men going off to war, rising animosity of the ...

During the decade between 1750 and 1760, Colonials had more on their minds than England's War with France and most of Europe. Many thinking men from New England to the Southern colonies had begun to plan their own "coming out party." Freemasons thought and began to plot. Dissenters worked to regain those members they had lost to the Anglicans and to increase their fold. Together, these two powerful institutions began to shape the hearts and mi...

DIRTY RICE, a novel set in the early 18th Century in the Low-Country of the early South Carolina Colony, tells of love, passion, adventure and cruelty with totally believable characters. It is the first prequel to the four books of the Mockingbird Hill Series. The early 18th Century saw vast expansion into the New World from England, the European Continent and from Africa, and the establishment of rice plantations in the coastal regions of Sou...

REBELLION AND RETRIBUTION A Tiger by The Tail In 1739, England's enemy in Spanish Florida increased their enticements to lure slaves to leave their colonial masters from South Carolina. They offered free land to any and all who would come and settle. Some slaves who ran tried to do as much harm as possible to the hated white slave owners on their way. The result of all these pressures was the Stono Rebellion, the most egregious slave u...

Mr. Barnes, you can take this shipyard and all the others and shove 'em up His Majesty's bloody arse." Shouting these treasonous words to his employer, Isham Holt, by far the most skilled shipwright in England, angrily left his place of employment and began a journey of discovery: of a new land, a new culture, new friends and ultimately of himself. At a time when Colonial South Carolina had ended its Proprietary phase and had become a Crown Co...

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It is the year seventeen hundred and thirty three. From the wilds of the Occaneechi Warriors' Path in the Carolina Piedmont, a lonely Monastery in far Northumbria, and a mansion in The Strand of London they come: a man of middle age seeking his lost youth, a boy and girl who help him to find it and a beautiful red stallion that brings them together.

In this third book in the Mockingbird Hill saga, the North and the South come together in battle again, although on a nominal scale. Anthony Parish, war weary Confederate soldier, returns home, his mind and heart set to rebuild his life on his beloved Low-Country plantation, Tally's Nook, only to find it totally destroyed by fire. In Charleston, the Perry sisters, Yankee haters both, chose to flee their confiscated home rather than share a r...

The start and finish, the beginning and the end, birth and death, it is not these that matter most. It is "The Time In Between." In this, the fourth book in what has become the acclaimed Mockingbird Hill Series, we meet old friends and new. We see a world that had been torn apart by civil war being burdened again through that evil. We see a love that is willing to let go rather than live in dishonor and to dishonor the love. We find brutality ...

Adventure. Romance. Heroism. Cowardice. Justice. "Coyotes of Creek Crossing" is the second installment in The Mockingbird Hill Series. In this book we meet again with Charlie O'Donnell and others whom we first met in Secret Sins of the Mothers. Charlie has fought the good fight in the Civil War and now chooses a path that takes him on a journey to strange new lands and strange new feelings. Dorothy Morris once again proves she can spin a y...