Green Sea Plantation - Paperback

by Louise Gore Sayre-David (Author)

Green Sea Plantation is the first novel of the masterful seven book series, She Heard a Whippoorwill. Two intertwined stories, one intimate love story and one grand historical tale, seize the reader. Lovely, innocent Eliza Carson is a sixteen-year-old daughter of a South Carolina plantation. Though there are a number of would-be suitors, no man claims Eliza's heart-until a chance meeting with the handsome Virginia horse trainer Luke Heyward. The spark of love between them is instant and undeniable. Luke, however, is convinced of his unworthiness and shuns the affection of Eliza. Two hearts seem irrevocably broken.Their story unfolds against the backdrop of America in 1859. A presidential campaign is taking place and the national divide over the issue of slavery, epitomized by the often discussed Lincoln-Douglas debates, consumes the thoughts of citizens in the North and South. All the while, Eliza's family deals with the beauty of their antebellum life and the tragedy of sudden loss. Impossible to set aside, Green Sea Plantation will captivate readers and leave them yearning for all the books in the series that lie ahead.

Author Biography

Louise Gore Sayre-David is a native North Carolinian, from Whiteville. She married two WWII veterans and been widowed by both with no children. She is a history and Civil War buff and especially in respect to the Civil War, which she has written a lengthy novel about concerning the war years, the period of Reconstruction in the South and extending into the 1890s. She is at present writing a non-fiction narrative entitled The Death of the Neighborhood Church.