Bloodroot
Lawyer-turned-herbalist China Bayles returns to the Deep South, where her family's legacy of silence is at last broken -- and the past finally, unforgettably, speaks the truth... A frantic phone call from her mother brings China back to her family's Mississippi plantation -- a place she�...
| Main Author: | Albert, Susan Wittig. |
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| Format: | Downloads eBook Books eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
2003.
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| Series: |
China Bayles Mystery.
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
| Summary: |
Lawyer-turned-herbalist China Bayles returns to the Deep South, where her family's legacy of silence is at last broken -- and the past finally, unforgettably, speaks the truth... A frantic phone call from her mother brings China back to her family's Mississippi plantation -- a place she'd forsaken long ago. But the late-spring air is thick with fear -- and from the moment of her arrival, China knows that something has gone desperately wrong at Jordan's Crossing. An ancient property deed has surfaced -- and the man who uncovered it has mysteriously vanished. And as the fates and fortunes of two very different families collide in frightening, unpredictable ways, China must face disturbing new questions about her family's past -- and her own future... |
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource |
| Format: |
Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 374 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
| ISBN: |
9781440672767 |
| Author Notes: |
During the mid- to late-1980s, Albert was a ghostwriter for the Nancy Drew mystery series. She wrote the acclaimed "Work of Her Own: How Women Create Success and Fulfillment off the Traditional Career Track" in 1992. Under the pseudonym of Robin Paige, Albert and her husband, Bill Albert, co-authored a twelve-volume mystery series set in late Victorian/Edwardian England. Albert writes the bestselling China Bayles mystery series, which features as its main character a Texas herbalist who had been a criminal attorney in Houston. Albert also writes the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter historical fantasy series, which is set in England during the early twentieth century. (Bowker Author Biography) |