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Carolina gamble
Carolina gamble
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Antebellum era, circa 1820-1840. The boy can take no more. He is lost. He is desperate to flee his wrecked family-his abusive father, his religion besotted mother, and the family hovel, his home of sixteen years. He must escape the life sucking mire that is the slums of Petersburg.
The gaming parlors hidden away in the magnificent hotels of downtown have lured him like a moth to a dark night's flame. Within two quick decades he has amassed a fortune. Even so, he has long believed life must have meaning and feels a great destiny awaits him. With the flip of a card, Samuel Elwyn Biggs has won an undeveloped expanse of land in North Carolina from an aged and obviously "consumptive" man who no longer cares that he is dying and cares even less for the possessions he has spent a lifetime accruing. With the winnings, Sam's life is forever changed. His destiny has arrived.
Sam is intent upon establishing a plantation with his new holdings. He finds his neighbor, Hesper Griffen, owner of the plantation to the north, is mentally ill and an alcoholic-and one sickness feeds the other. For years Griffen has ruled the countryside into which Sam has arrived with a frenzied and deadly tyranny. He has long believed the abandoned land which Sam now owns is rightfully his. Determined to crush the newly arrived interloper, Hesper violently confronts Sam but quickly learns the newly arrived stranger has no fear of him and that his own brand of retaliation is not only aggressive but extreme.
Neither fears the other and neither will give an inch. Thus, a war starts between the two.
Emmett Dettwyler, Sam's neighbor to the south is also a wealthy and much respected plantation owner. He, too, has little use for Hesper Griffen. With an agenda of his own, he befriends Sam and becomes his mentor. With Emmett lives Rose, a mysterious and beautiful young lady. She is not Emmett's wife, nor is she his daughter, yet the two are devoted to each other.
Sam and Rose fall in love and wish to marry, but Rose continually forestalls the wedding-there are secrets which must be told. Secrets that hint of incest and sexual aberrations. Secrets that can ruin lives.
And there are many wrongs which must be righted.
The gaming parlors hidden away in the magnificent hotels of downtown have lured him like a moth to a dark night's flame. Within two quick decades he has amassed a fortune. Even so, he has long believed life must have meaning and feels a great destiny awaits him. With the flip of a card, Samuel Elwyn Biggs has won an undeveloped expanse of land in North Carolina from an aged and obviously "consumptive" man who no longer cares that he is dying and cares even less for the possessions he has spent a lifetime accruing. With the winnings, Sam's life is forever changed. His destiny has arrived.
Sam is intent upon establishing a plantation with his new holdings. He finds his neighbor, Hesper Griffen, owner of the plantation to the north, is mentally ill and an alcoholic-and one sickness feeds the other. For years Griffen has ruled the countryside into which Sam has arrived with a frenzied and deadly tyranny. He has long believed the abandoned land which Sam now owns is rightfully his. Determined to crush the newly arrived interloper, Hesper violently confronts Sam but quickly learns the newly arrived stranger has no fear of him and that his own brand of retaliation is not only aggressive but extreme.
Neither fears the other and neither will give an inch. Thus, a war starts between the two.
Emmett Dettwyler, Sam's neighbor to the south is also a wealthy and much respected plantation owner. He, too, has little use for Hesper Griffen. With an agenda of his own, he befriends Sam and becomes his mentor. With Emmett lives Rose, a mysterious and beautiful young lady. She is not Emmett's wife, nor is she his daughter, yet the two are devoted to each other.
Sam and Rose fall in love and wish to marry, but Rose continually forestalls the wedding-there are secrets which must be told. Secrets that hint of incest and sexual aberrations. Secrets that can ruin lives.
And there are many wrongs which must be righted.
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