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Sautee Shadows: Book One of the Georgia Gold Series (The Georgia Gold Trilogy)
Sautee Shadows Book One of the Georgia Gold Series - The Georgia Gold Trilogy Author:Denise Weimer Sautee Shadows: Book One of the Georgia Gold Series is the sweeping saga of four families whose lives intertwine through romance, adventure, and murder, linking antebellum Georgia's coast and mountains during the economic expansion of the 1830s.Richard Randall's family moves from New York to Savannah to establish a shipping company. Richard's so... more »n, Jack, finds the Southern city alien. His struggle to fit in intensifies with the death of his mother. Eventually, the Randalls follow the example of many other coastal elite like the rice-planter Rousseaus, customers of Richard's by 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 young, lovely, and spirited Mahala Franklin. Orphaned daughter of a Cherokee mother and a man murdered for his gold, Mahala was raised by a farm family in the Sautee Valley, only to be torn from them by her maternal grandmother as a teen. Mahala's life has been focused on the clues left in her father's strongbox. She wonders if his murderer is still living in the same town.Separated by age and class, Mahala and Jack refuse to acknowledge their 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.« less