Novel CAMELLIA CREEK Highlights that for all the “Right” Reasons the South Was Right

Mystery, Suspense, and Romance Against the Backdrop of the Devastated South
 
GULFPORT, Miss. - Aug. 10, 2013 - PRLog -- Gulfport’s Loblolly Writer’s House announces publication of Charlsie Russell’s latest historical suspense, Camellia Creek, set in Claiborne County, Mississippi near the end of Presidential Reconstruction. A satisfying mix of mystery and romance, the novel is also a compelling indictment of Lincoln and the Union and the war they chose to inflict upon the South.

 

“Union be damned. The Republic our forefathers created is gone.” (Eli Calhoon to Alice Shelton, Camellia Creek).

 

In September 1865 Eli Calhoon, Confederate States Army, returns to his war-ravaged plantation, Camellia Creek, outside Port Gibson, Mississippi, resolved to begin again. But the South lies prostrate in the wake of a devastating conflict that wasted its population and destroyed its economy. More troubling, the South’s recovery is now overseen by an enemy determined the Southern economy, as well as the South’s influence within the Union, will never revive. Orphaned heiress Alice Shelton has come to Mississippi with her aunt Betty and Betty’s husband, Peter Franklin, a northern speculator in search of investment. Alice’s widowed father and her two brothers died fighting for the Union. The losses have left Alice in despair so deep her aunt fears Alice might take her own life.

 

Seth Parker, Major, United States Marine Corps, is in Mississippi to investigate the murder of a U.S. Treasury agent, whose death may tie to cotton thefts rampant among white Army officers stationed in the state. To investigate the death, Seth is given a troop of nine men, all Negro members of Mississippi’s Native Guard, for the most part ex-slaves recruited into the Union Army during the war.

 

Desperate times call for desperate measures. When an indiscretion lands Alice into the hands of a determined Eli Calhoon, he blackmails her into marriage and brings her, and her fortune, to Camellia Creek, where she is haunted by Jocelyn LeBlanc, an ill-fated beauty who died under mysterious circumstances decades earlier. In addition to Jocelyn’s ghostly presence, war’s aftermath, murder, and jealous greed vex Alice, threatening her new-found desire to live, a desire ignited by the very man who could be plotting to snuff it out.

 

About the Author: Charlsie Russell is a Mississippian. Following graduation from the University of Mississippi in 1972, she received a commission in the United States Navy from which she retired in 1993 as a full commander in Naval Intelligence. Ms. Russell writes historical fiction set in Mississippi and resides with her family in Gulfport, Mississippi. Camellia Creek is available in paperback at bookstores and in all digital formats from Smashwords, https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/314130 . It is available at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/184-9891620-5156060?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=charlsie%20russell%20camellia%20creek in both paperback and digital formats (Kindle) and Barnes and Noble in paperback and .epub formats (Nook), http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Charlsie-Russell-Camellia-Creek?store=allproducts&keyword=Charlsie+Russell+Camellia+Creek  . Readers can also purchase the paperback directly from the author. Visit Loblolly Writer’s House website for more information.
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