Now Available - Cedar Grove
After nearly three years researching and writing the Delacroix Saga, book one is now available on Amazon. Cedar Grove, my Civil War-era novel is the first book in a two book series that delves into the lives of two people in the same family and spans the years 1861 to the early 1920s in New Orleans.
Cedar Grove is the story of Uranie Delacroix, a Creole beauty who discovers that, though she was raised a Southern Belle alongside her half-sister, Elyse, when the girls came of age, their father had to make a painful decision concerning Ranie. That decision shapes everything she does from the age of nineteen, as well as the lives of the generations that followed. Through hardships and great disappointment, Ranie stiffens her resolve and pushes through, with little help and little experience in the harshness that life had to offer. I hope you enjoy Ranie’s story.The second book, After Dark Rag, will be out in September, 2018, when you’ll meet Ranie’s grandson, Fitzgerald Delacroix, a ragtime musician and songwriter. In his way, his life parallels Ranie’s, with hardship and disappointments, but his upbringing prepared him well, and Ranie’s influence is felt well into the twentieth century.Cedar Grove is only available on Amazon.In keeping with a promise made by her father to her mother, Uranie Delacroix has lived the life of a Southern Belle, with all the refinements afforded members of the Louisiana planter society. But she’s never belonged in either her father’s world or her mother’s, and that will come to set her apart from everything she knows.When the War Between the States threatens the stability of the South, nothing is as it was, nor will it ever be again. Her determination drives her to do things she’d thought herself incapable. But her strength is also her weakness and her weakness is her weapon. As the Yankees pillage and plunder the countryside, and Cedar Grove, Ranie’s actions come with a price.When is enough too much?
Cedar Grove is the story of Uranie Delacroix, a Creole beauty who discovers that, though she was raised a Southern Belle alongside her half-sister, Elyse, when the girls came of age, their father had to make a painful decision concerning Ranie. That decision shapes everything she does from the age of nineteen, as well as the lives of the generations that followed. Through hardships and great disappointment, Ranie stiffens her resolve and pushes through, with little help and little experience in the harshness that life had to offer. I hope you enjoy Ranie’s story.The second book, After Dark Rag, will be out in September, 2018, when you’ll meet Ranie’s grandson, Fitzgerald Delacroix, a ragtime musician and songwriter. In his way, his life parallels Ranie’s, with hardship and disappointments, but his upbringing prepared him well, and Ranie’s influence is felt well into the twentieth century.Cedar Grove is only available on Amazon.In keeping with a promise made by her father to her mother, Uranie Delacroix has lived the life of a Southern Belle, with all the refinements afforded members of the Louisiana planter society. But she’s never belonged in either her father’s world or her mother’s, and that will come to set her apart from everything she knows.When the War Between the States threatens the stability of the South, nothing is as it was, nor will it ever be again. Her determination drives her to do things she’d thought herself incapable. But her strength is also her weakness and her weakness is her weapon. As the Yankees pillage and plunder the countryside, and Cedar Grove, Ranie’s actions come with a price.When is enough too much?
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