Review: You will love this book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2013
"The Abolitionist's Secret" is a wonderfully written book by Becky Lower and the second book of the Cotillion Ball series. The author has taken her love of history and woven it into a tale of love that takes place before the Civil War and during the issue of slavery. The heroine, Heather Fitzpatrick, is in love with David Whitman, a lieutenant in the army who comes from the deep south. She is an abolitionist who wants to help slaves, unbeknownst to the hero. Soon, she discovers that David's father owns a plantation in Georgia and after their betrothal that he wants to take her to meet his dying father and his evil mother who is set in her ways. From the very first page until the last, this reader smiled, laughed, cried, and wanted our hero and heroine to be together, forever. Can love stand the test of a mean and spiteful mother who wants to do nothing but hold onto her home and that Southern dignity? I read this book several times because I fell in love with the characters. They leapt off the pages and made me fill as though I shared their lives. Becky Lower is truly an author whose depth of history and flow of words makes me want to continue reading every book she writes, not only in the Cotillion Ball series, but any of her books because she makes the reader, smile, laugh, cry, and long for more. Her name belongs on everyone's bookshelf. Sharon Lee Fernberg