Review: "Time Related Romance Story"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2014
This is a very good romance novel set in the south along the lower Mississippi River.  You might say it's two novels in one as it encompasses the horrors and devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, and also the struggles of life during the Civil War days in mid-1800's. In 2005, Amaryllis Camilla O'Brien (referred to as Cammie)arrives at the plantation home during a heavy rain storm.  She's thrilled to be out of the big city, and even more thrilled to have inherited the plantation from her grandmother, the dream of her childhood.  But too quickly Hurricane Katrina is assaulting her dream; however, the plantation manager, Noah Gautreaux, is there to keep her safe.  They were best friends in their teen years.  Cammie has in her possession the diary of her great-grandmother, Margaret Jane Turnrow, who had married the rich plantation owner, Danny, at 15 years of age just prior to the Civil War.  Thus the reader is swept back in time to the events via Cammie's reading of the diary. The characters in these two stories are strong and well developed.  This novel will make you cry, it will make you laugh, and it's one you will find hard to put down.  B.J. Robinson knows how to write a captivating story and is certainly a great storyteller!