Thursday, January 2, 2014

Carolina Gold Review


Charlotte Fraser, the lead character in Carolina Gold, is determined.  With the passing of her father and the end of the Civil War she heads back to Fairhaven, her family home. She knows she will need to plant rice crops to provide a living for her and to pay back debts. The only thing that she has is the property at Fairhaven but even that is questioned since the land deed in her father's name is missing.

When Charlotte arrives at Fairhaven, there is no live stock and the fields where her family grew rice is desolated. Charlotte must figure out how to plant and harvest the rice crop when there are few men and no slaves to provide the labor. The only few men remaining realize that they can charge Charlotte whatever the going rate is to restore some of her crops. She soon bands together with a neighboring family to hire a group of men to help plant their rice crops.

Nicholas Betancourt moves back to his estate, then he tries to hire Charlotte to tutor his two young girls while he attempts to get his affairs in order to start over. Nicholas is hoping that having a woman's presence back in his daughters lives will help them adjust to life after the death of their mother. Even though, not a teacher, Charlotte accepts the position to earn money to restore her family home.

Will Charlotte find the deed and restore her family home? Will Nicholas discover Charlotte’s presence helps him to adjust to a life after the death of his wife? A very good read for anyone who loves historical fiction. Dorothy Love is a talented author who I enjoy reading and am sure you will too.

I received this book free of charge from Booksneeze.com in exchange for my honest opinion and review.