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Laura Kate Plantation #2
Honored Daughters
While Jack Rhodes is in London, Laura Kate O'Connell is tussling with a life-changing decision. Jack has asked her to marry him. Love him as she does, marriage and babies has never been in her life plan.
A law enforcement agent asks Laura Kate to find out who killed his niece, one of several students at Honored Daughters who have died mysteriously. Jack can't know she's involved, or he'd be on the next plane home. To complicate the situation, a former soldier-turned-militia-organizer, Pearse Macaula, falls for and stalks her. He's dangerous, but did he murder the Honored Daughters girls? She must trust him to find out, while brushing off his advances. This is a man who always gets his way. Will he try to kill her if he can't have her? It's a chance she has to take.
A law enforcement agent asks Laura Kate to find out who killed his niece, one of several students at Honored Daughters who have died mysteriously. Jack can't know she's involved, or he'd be on the next plane home. To complicate the situation, a former soldier-turned-militia-organizer, Pearse Macaula, falls for and stalks her. He's dangerous, but did he murder the Honored Daughters girls? She must trust him to find out, while brushing off his advances. This is a man who always gets his way. Will he try to kill her if he can't have her? It's a chance she has to take.
242 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2009
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About the author
Gerrie Ferris Finger
23 books99 followersFormer journalist and novelist, Gerrie, won the St. Martin's Minotaur award for the Best First Traditional Novel of 2009 THE END GAME.
THE GHOST SHIP and WHISPERING were released in late 2011.
MERCILESS, a novella, 2012.
HEARTLESS, a novella, 2012.
Read all three books in the Laura Kate Plantation Series: LOOK AWAY FROM EVIL, WHEN SERPENTS DIE, HONORED DAUGHTERS, WAGON DOGS.
THE LAST TEMPTATION sequel to THE END GAME released 2012
THE DEVIL LAUGHED, August 2013
A GLORIOUS CURSE, May 2013
MURMURS OF INSANITY 2014
RUNNING WITH WILD BLOOD 2015
AMERICAN NIGHTS 2016
WOLF'S CLOTHING 2018
COLORS OF BLOOD 2019
THE GHOST SHIP and WHISPERING were released in late 2011.
MERCILESS, a novella, 2012.
HEARTLESS, a novella, 2012.
Read all three books in the Laura Kate Plantation Series: LOOK AWAY FROM EVIL, WHEN SERPENTS DIE, HONORED DAUGHTERS, WAGON DOGS.
THE LAST TEMPTATION sequel to THE END GAME released 2012
THE DEVIL LAUGHED, August 2013
A GLORIOUS CURSE, May 2013
MURMURS OF INSANITY 2014
RUNNING WITH WILD BLOOD 2015
AMERICAN NIGHTS 2016
WOLF'S CLOTHING 2018
COLORS OF BLOOD 2019
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March 11, 2011
Honored Daughters – Reviewed by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat
‘They parked at the side of the big house. She led him through the rhododendrons, past the ornamental pond, to the back terrace. Nyan stopped, and she watched his eyes roam over the antebellum mansion. He wrinkled his nose and turned away. “Let’s sit over by the pond,” he said. “I like being outside.” (Laura Kate said,) “If the sky opens, I’m going inside.” He moved his shoulders up and down. “If I have to, I have to.” The wrought iron chairs were uncomfortable without cushions, but he didn’t seem to mind as he watched the carp flashing their gold tails in the rippling water. After a time, he said, “Eight years ago, a freshman named Maribel Serrano was killed in a hit-and-run on Indrio Road. Six years ago Lydia Franklin was shot by a hunter’s stray bullet in the woods of the school’s property. Lisa Brownfeld hung herself in the bike barn. A year ago Doris Potaki drowned in Hewatt Homeister’s catfish pond. Ten days ago Dari Birdsong was murdered and left in a black farmer’s field.”
Laura Kate O’Connell is now the owner of Live Oaks Plantation which is located deep in the heart of South Georgia. Just down the road from Live Oaks stands Honored Daughters. Honored Daughters is an elite school for girls but not just any girl. To become a student or even a teacher you must be a direct descendant of a Confederate veteran. Dari Birdsong was one of those descendants, but her forced admittance brought attention to groups of the Old South that would have been better left alone. Dari’s mother was a direct descendant, but Dari's father was a black man. So when she was murdered and a cross was carved in her stomach it made most people look to the Klan and its offspring as being responsible. And, as Laura Kate checks deeper into the other deaths, she finds the possibility of an “ethnic-cleansing” taking place at the school. But again, are the deaths Klan related or is there a serial killer on the loose?
To make matters more confusing, the property owned by the school and the property owned by a male descendant, Hewatt Homeister, could be joined if Homeister died without an heir or if the school went under. This feud had been going on for several generations and wasn’t letting up, leading some to believe the cross proved the Klan, which has its own reasons for keeping the school open, may have been involved; but there were also those who believed Homeister created the deaths to discredit the school enough for it to close and the property to revert to him.
Following Laura Kate as she gets close to some of the hate group members, kept me on the edge of my seat. Growing up in the South myself, I remember stories about the Klan. They weren’t people I wanted to come into contact with and hoped I never did. In Honored Daughters Gerrie Ferris gives you enough suspects to keep you guessing throughout the book. There were times I even thought it might be the SBI agent or even that Laura Kate’s boyfriend might be somehow involved. When the true murderer was disclosed, I have to admit that I suspected them a couple of times but couldn’t see how it would have been possible. The ending was a real shock for me, and has me wanting to go back and read Book One.
2009
Desert Breeze Publishing
183 pages
ISBN# 978-1-936000-18-0
Review Stir, Laugh, Repeat at Amazon.com Stir, Laugh, Repeat
‘They parked at the side of the big house. She led him through the rhododendrons, past the ornamental pond, to the back terrace. Nyan stopped, and she watched his eyes roam over the antebellum mansion. He wrinkled his nose and turned away. “Let’s sit over by the pond,” he said. “I like being outside.” (Laura Kate said,) “If the sky opens, I’m going inside.” He moved his shoulders up and down. “If I have to, I have to.” The wrought iron chairs were uncomfortable without cushions, but he didn’t seem to mind as he watched the carp flashing their gold tails in the rippling water. After a time, he said, “Eight years ago, a freshman named Maribel Serrano was killed in a hit-and-run on Indrio Road. Six years ago Lydia Franklin was shot by a hunter’s stray bullet in the woods of the school’s property. Lisa Brownfeld hung herself in the bike barn. A year ago Doris Potaki drowned in Hewatt Homeister’s catfish pond. Ten days ago Dari Birdsong was murdered and left in a black farmer’s field.”
Laura Kate O’Connell is now the owner of Live Oaks Plantation which is located deep in the heart of South Georgia. Just down the road from Live Oaks stands Honored Daughters. Honored Daughters is an elite school for girls but not just any girl. To become a student or even a teacher you must be a direct descendant of a Confederate veteran. Dari Birdsong was one of those descendants, but her forced admittance brought attention to groups of the Old South that would have been better left alone. Dari’s mother was a direct descendant, but Dari's father was a black man. So when she was murdered and a cross was carved in her stomach it made most people look to the Klan and its offspring as being responsible. And, as Laura Kate checks deeper into the other deaths, she finds the possibility of an “ethnic-cleansing” taking place at the school. But again, are the deaths Klan related or is there a serial killer on the loose?
To make matters more confusing, the property owned by the school and the property owned by a male descendant, Hewatt Homeister, could be joined if Homeister died without an heir or if the school went under. This feud had been going on for several generations and wasn’t letting up, leading some to believe the cross proved the Klan, which has its own reasons for keeping the school open, may have been involved; but there were also those who believed Homeister created the deaths to discredit the school enough for it to close and the property to revert to him.
Following Laura Kate as she gets close to some of the hate group members, kept me on the edge of my seat. Growing up in the South myself, I remember stories about the Klan. They weren’t people I wanted to come into contact with and hoped I never did. In Honored Daughters Gerrie Ferris gives you enough suspects to keep you guessing throughout the book. There were times I even thought it might be the SBI agent or even that Laura Kate’s boyfriend might be somehow involved. When the true murderer was disclosed, I have to admit that I suspected them a couple of times but couldn’t see how it would have been possible. The ending was a real shock for me, and has me wanting to go back and read Book One.
2009
Desert Breeze Publishing
183 pages
ISBN# 978-1-936000-18-0
Review Stir, Laugh, Repeat at Amazon.com Stir, Laugh, Repeat
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