Carolina Gold

The Civil War is over.  Her father is gone.  Charlotte Fraser has only her rice plantation and an island cottage her father left her.  She is determined to put the pieces of her life back together in spite of the fact that little is left of her former life, her father's slaves are now free, and little help to be found.  She may just be able to make it if she can grow the rice her father was famous for, Carolina Gold.  So many obstacles stand in her way and she has a loan to repay or risk losing Fairhaven so Charlotte agrees to tutor two neighbor girls to help pay the taxes and loan but gets more than she bargained for.

I selected this book simply because of the Charleston, SC area setting, never remembering having read any other novels by Dorothy Love but I wasn't disappointed.  What I found was an author whose pen brings history to life and makes the reader feel as if she is part of the story as one who is learning to live in the aftermath of the Civil War when the southern way of life was totally turned upside down.  Ms. Love is an author I will be looking for in the future as historical fiction is my favorite.  I did receive this book free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review and was in no way obligated to leave a positive review.