Southern Charm!
Ellie, a young teacher from an Alabama farm, longs to see what the rest of the world looks like. It is 1949, a couple of years after the end of the war. The returning vets she dated would like to marry her, have her give up teaching, while staying home and having children—without ever asking if she is okay with that.
To satisfy her wanderlust, Ellie has accepted a teaching job hundreds of miles from home in backwater Louisiana at a place called Bernadette. She finds it isn’t as idyllic as she thought because there is no electricity or indoor plumbing there, and she is the teacher for all twelve grades. But she loves the local characters she meets, that French is their first language, the small community, and the legend of the white alligator.
Has she found her forever home, maybe even the love of her life?
But unbeknownst to Ellie and all of them, this peaceful little hamlet has a dangerous current running beneath it. A powerful man has discovered a treasure there, and is determined to not only get his hands on it, but do so without any of the actual owners getting a penny. He sets in motion circumstances that could change the course of all their existence, and cause the end of the lifestyle they all enjoy.
This is a sweet story of a by-gone era that has caring relationships with fun traditions, but at the same time, a tale with danger, stealthy activity and sketchy characters just below the surface. This clean, five-star, page-turner will keep you glued to it until the end. Told from a Christian viewpoint, fans of entrancing, southern settings with romance and hints of danger will like this book.
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