Review: Great Historical Romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 3, 2012
For those of you who loved feisty Ginger Fitzpatrick's story, your wait is over...Becky Lower brings us book two in her Fitzpatrick family saga, focusing on Heather, younger sister of Ginger and twin sister of Jasmine. (Even if you haven't read the first book, you can easily begin with this one.)Lower again combines a sweeping story set in an America on the cusp of being divided into North and South, and again brings us complex and emotional family dynamics that ring true to real life.Heather and her boisterous, trouble-making twin Jasmine are just beginning their coming-out Season, but Jasmine gets sidelined by an injury and is forced to stay on the sidelines...for once.Heather, who has tended to live in Jasmine's shadow, suddenly discovers what life is like on her own. She finds herself aiding an escaped slave and her child, and falling in love with a dashing Southern army lieutenant...who happens to be tracking the very slaves Heather has aided...for they have escaped from his own plantationDespite their differences, Heather and David fall in love...but how can an abolitionist ever marry a slave owner?When Heather journeys to David's plantation, she begins teaching slaves to read and finds her calling as a teacher. But David's mother is an ominous adversary, determined not to allow a Northerner to change the traditional way of life she has so carefully planned to preserve for her son. She seizes an opportunity provided by an impulsive act of jealousy by Heather's twin to attempt to destroy Heather and David's love.You will greatly enjoy this story of self-discovery as Heather learns who she is as a person apart from her twin, and wonder if love can be strong enough to alter beliefs that have driven families and cultures for centuries.You will be sad when it ends...but don't be too sad, because Heather and Ginger have a rakish brother, Basil, whose story is up next from this talented author.