Sautee Shadows

by Weimer, Denise

• ISBN13: 9780982905487
• ISBN10: 0982905483
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-08-01
• Publisher: Canterbury House Publishing

Summary

Sautee Shadows: Book one of the Georgia Gold Series is the sweeping saga of four families whose lives intertwine through romance, adventure and murder¿olinking antebellum Georgia¡¦s coast and mountains during the economic expansion of the 1830s. Richard Randall¡¦s Family moves from New York to Savannah, Georgia to establish a shipping company. Richard¡¦s son Jack finds the southern city alien, his struggle to fit in only intensifying with the death of his mother. Eventually the Randalls follow the example of many other coastal elite¿olike the rice-planter Rousseaus, customers of Richards¿oby building a summer home in Habersham County¡¦s foothills. Attracted by the possibility of future railroad tourism, Jack decides to purchase a hotel in Clarkesville where he meets an unexpected competitor¿oyoung, lovely and spirited Mahala Franklin. Orphaned daughter of a man murdered for his gold and a Cherokee mother, Mahala was raised by a farm family in the Sautee Valley and torn from them by her maternal grandmother as a young teen. Mahala¡¦s life has been focused on the clues left in her father¡¦s strongbox and wondering if her father¡¦s murderer is still living in the same town. Separated by age and class boundaries Mahala and Jack refuse to acknowledge their similarities and attraction. As the country hurtles toward division and civil war seems imminent, Habersham¡¦s ¡§summer people¡¨ must choose sides and alliances that could sustain or destroy them in the coming decade.

Author Biography

Denise Weimer holds a journalism degree with a minor in history from Asbury University. She's a managing editor for Smitten Romance and Heritage Beacon Historical Fiction, Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas, as well as the author of The Georgia Gold Series, The Restoration Trilogy, and a number of romantic novellas including "Across Three Autumns" of Barbour's Backcountry Brides Collection. Denise writes historical and contemporary romance and romantic suspense set in her home state of Georgia. She’s authored eleven traditionally published novels and a number of novellas.