1870. Impoverished Southern belle Joelle Daughtry has been helping her sisters in their quest to turn the run-down family plantation into a resort hotel. But by night and under a male pseudonym, she has been penning articles for the local paper in support of the construction of a Negro school. With the Mississippi arm of the Ku Klux Klan gaining power and prestige,she is playing a dangerous game. Childhood enemy and current investor in the Daughtry house renovation Schuyler Beaumont takes over his assassinated father's candidacy for state office. In order to protect her family, Joelle and Schuyler develop a united public front. -- adapted from back cover
Series:
Thorndike Press large print Christian historical fiction Daughtry house ; #2 White, Beth, 1957- Daughtry House ; #2.
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