Rebel Heart
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Publisher Description
Five years after the final shot was fired in the War Between the States, Selah Daughtry can barely manage to keep herself, her two younger sisters, and their spinster cousin fed and clothed. With their family's Mississippi plantation swamped by debt and the Big House falling down around them, the only option seems to be giving up their ancestral land.
Pinkerton agent and former Union cavalryman Levi Riggins is investigating a series of robberies and sabotage linked to the impoverished Daughtry plantation. Posing as a hotel management agent for the railroad, he tells Selah he'll help her save her home, but only if it is converted into a hotel. With Selah otherwise engaged with renovations, Levi moves onto the property to "supervise" while he actually attends to his real assignment right under her nose.
Selah isn't sure she entirely trusts the handsome Yankee, but she'd do almost anything to save her home. What she never expected to encounter was his assault on her heart.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
White (The Pelican Bride) bridges Union and Confederate in this charming post-Civil War inspirational romance. In 1870, Selah Daughtry is single and struggling to support herself and her two younger sisters on their family plantation outside of Oxford, Miss. Everything changes when Selah is rescued during a train accident by Yankee Levi Riggins, who claims to be traveling to Mississippi as a hotel management agent for the railroad. In fact, Levi is a Pinkerton detective investigating several train robberies whose perpetrators have slipped away near her plantation. Despite instructions to investigate the plantation and his initial suspicions of Selah, Levi is attracted to her. Desperate to keep the family plantation, she agrees to his plan to develop the run-down estate into a glamorous hotel, completely unaware that Levi only proposed the idea as a way to keep his cover as he continues to search for the robbers. In an effort to mend the prejudice that haunts the town, Levi hires ex-slaves to revamp the plantation and run the hotel. When Levi realizes that he has a true connection to Selah and the town, he cannot bring himself to reveal his secret. But when Selah finds out on her own, her powers of forgiveness are put to the test and she must turn to her faith for answers. White weaves together romance, mystery, and a large amount of reconstruction-era detail in this valuable tale of love and forgiveness.
Customer Reviews
This is an absolutely incredible historical romance!
I loved this book. The characters have so much depth to them that they captivated me from the beginning. It begins with individuals on a train. A very simple setup and yet the descriptions of the surroundings, and the characters themselves, was fantastic.
The amount of detail in the post-civil-war era was great. I’ve seen movies and read books about this period before. But this story had my attention to the point that I was emotionally invested in the different groups to a deeper extent than I believe anything else has done prior to now.
The plot of the case that Levi is trying to solve has so many twists to it that I was caught up in trying to figure it out right along with him.
One of my favorite aspects of this book is the deep faith in God that Selah displays. She is leaning on Him and striving to follow the teaching from the bible.
This was the first book that I’ve read by Beth White. I look forward to the next one in this series. In the meantime I will be looking for any other books that she has already written.
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