A fictionalized account of the life of Alice Flagg, a fifteen-year-old planter's daughter who fell in love with a common lumberman, was sent away to boarding school to end the unacceptable affair, and died before she could be reunited with her beloved
Rhyne has a special place in my heart of capturing the spirit of the Carolina coast. We have a number of her books. This one, like the other, has a good, local story. The writing itself, however, is adequate.