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Stone Hill
Amidst the lush, sensuous beauty of South Carolina's Tidewater stood the plantation Stone Hill - last bastion of British loyalty, pride of the powerful Tory leader Robert Prentice. But beneath Stone Hill's serene splendor grew the secret and tangled passions that were to divide the Prentice family one from another, even as the tides of revolution would divide a nation...LADY JANE...Orphaned daughter of the aristocracy, her heart's wild stirring beckoned her to the arms of a gentle rebel...CLARISSA PRENTICE...a ravishing blonde beauty of insatiable desires, she defied her Loyalist husband to seek freedom in the arms of her husband's enemy - and Lady Jane's sworn love...SIMON CORDWYN...a Yankee by birth, he would risk his life to bring a brave young America to glory, even as he gave his passion to a scheming seductress, and his undying love to the proud Englishwoman destiny had marked his own...
448 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 1983
About the author
William Lavender
23 books9 followersWILLIAM LAVENDER'S career has spanned the areas of music, film documentary, theater, and literature. He published six adult novels in the seventies and eighties that received accolades, were brought out in many languages, and even made the Publishers Weekly bestseller list. JUST JANE was his first novel for young readers. William lives with his wife in Riverside, California.
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June 15, 2012
3.5 stars
"Gentlemen. President Rutledge has received word from Philadelphia. The Virginia resolution is adopted. Independence has been declared."
Jane might be an Earl's daughter, but since her father frittered away the family fortune and then dropped dead, she has little choice but to accept her uncle Robert's offer to come and live with him in South Carolina. For the most part Jane settles into her new life and family with ease, but she does find herself torn between her loyalties to her homeland and those of her new friends and family.
This really is one of those *too hard to try and explain the plot without giving it all away* kind of books, so I'm just going to pass on trying. The author does a nice job of using his characters to let the reader see both sides of the conflict, and a big thumbs up to using a teacher grilling a lazy student to set up some background information instead of info-dumping. While I did enjoy reading this, I didn't feel a strong emotional connection with the main characters, and they are fading from memory fairly quickly and thus doesn't quite merit a four star rating.
"Gentlemen. President Rutledge has received word from Philadelphia. The Virginia resolution is adopted. Independence has been declared."
Jane might be an Earl's daughter, but since her father frittered away the family fortune and then dropped dead, she has little choice but to accept her uncle Robert's offer to come and live with him in South Carolina. For the most part Jane settles into her new life and family with ease, but she does find herself torn between her loyalties to her homeland and those of her new friends and family.
This really is one of those *too hard to try and explain the plot without giving it all away* kind of books, so I'm just going to pass on trying. The author does a nice job of using his characters to let the reader see both sides of the conflict, and a big thumbs up to using a teacher grilling a lazy student to set up some background information instead of info-dumping. While I did enjoy reading this, I didn't feel a strong emotional connection with the main characters, and they are fading from memory fairly quickly and thus doesn't quite merit a four star rating.
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