Welcome!CORRIGANS' POOL has a new publisher,Checkered Swan Publishing, LLC, and is now available in a second, revised edition worldwide.
If you haven't read the original Award Winning version, I urge you to consider the new, slightly longer, edition.
IF ORDERING, PLEASE ORDER THE NEW EDITION:
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CORRIGANS' POOL 2009 EDITION WAS NAMED A FINALIST IN THE 2010 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS, AND WAS ALSO A FINALIST IN 2010 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS.
EXTRA!APRIL 2012: THE NEW, REVISED, 2011 EDITION OF CORRIGANS' POOL IS NAMED A FINALIST IN FOREWORD REVIEW'S "BOOK OF THE YEAR" AWARDS! THE WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED JUNE 23, 2012 AT ALA (AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION) in Anaheim, California.
AboutCorrigans'Pool: The genteel ways of the old South are woven together with its coarser threads of infamy—slavery. Historically accurate, Corrigans' Pool reveals a tale of love, mystery, humor, and tragedy ... when a young Southern woman marries the wrong man and lives to regret it ....
Bitter with thoughts of the darkly handsome stranger who promised to marry her and then left town without a word, Ella Corrigan hastily weds a neighboring planter—a man whose cold indifference is merely a disguise for cunning insanity. His cruelty to his slaves horrifies her and, although her family has owned slaves for generations, she questions the concept of human bondage for the first ... while desperately longing for her cherished Greenpoole plantation and Corrigan's Pool ... a beautiful phenomenon of nature that the slaves call "Conjuring Pool" for reasons they cannot explain when asked.
The South is embroiled in a bitter Civil War by the time Ella Corrigan discovers that Corrigans' Pool is much more than the exquisitely beautiful pond she had thought it to be all her life. But by the time she learns its dangerous secret she is deeply entangled in a secret of her own ... one that has made her a virtual prisoner, hopelessly trapped in a world dreadfully different from her previous existence as mistress of her gentle father's plantation home along the Savannah River.
Subsequently, Ella is no stranger to hardships whenUnion troops burn their way across Georgia and swarm onto her property and then into Savannah. Always, in the back of her mind, are tortured memories of the man who made love to her and then deserted her "almost before his kisses had dried on her lips". Her bitterness, merged with the cruelties of the the man she married, has rendered her scarcely recognizable by the family that loves her. Ella's harrowing joueney toward redemption tests her sanity as well as her strength. What will she do when the past that she has long blamed for her misery steps unexpectedly out of the darkness to face her?
Have you read my Civil War era romanace novel and liked it? If so, please click (left) to learn about the UPCOMING SEQUEL and to read the unedited PART ONE of the three-part sequel (title to be shown on date of publication).
Much thanks,
Dot Ryan
For more, please read the ForeWord Five Star Review at left
