When outlaw Peach Brady goes to Charleston in search of Laurel Sinclair Laughton, he does not expect that the key to finding a lost treasure would be so beautiful. By the author of Angel.
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From Publishers Weekly
Twenty-three-year-old Laurel Sinclair Laughton has known a lot of misfortune: her parents died when she was young, her husband died after three weeks of marriage, and since the death of her uncle she has taken it upon herself to watch over her flighty aunt and self-pitying, physically weak cousin. She shocks post-Reconstruction Charleston with her willful, unladylike ways, bargaining down the grocer's prices and playing a mean hand of poker. While searching desperately for the money needed to stop a foreclosure on her family's house, she hooks up with Seth Tait, a man with a murky past who claims to be a rancher from out West looking for a civilized place to settle down. In reality he is searching for a stash of gold stolen by Laurel's father before his death in the war and buried on a run-down piece of property she inherited from her parents. Laurel and Seth are credible characters who behave in surprising and original ways. The plot moves at a brisk pace and Bristol ( Amber Skies ) smoothly integrates historical detail about Charleston in that era, recreating the atmosphere of a fallen city where the newly poor gentility carry on as if nothing has happened.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
YA-Laurel Sinclair can provide Seth Tait with an entrance into Charleston, South Carolina's high society in 1886, but only readers will know his background and his motive, which is to steal a treasure that Laurel doesn't even know she owns. Marriage and romance follow (in that order), building to an exciting climax. The two main characters are especially well drawn and convincingly real. The pace is rapid, and the text easy to read. A fun, lighthearted look at a bygone era.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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