A Rebel Heart

A Rebel Heart
The Daughtry House Series, Book 1
Beth White
(Revell)
ISBN: 978-0800726898
June 2018/384 pages/$15.99
A Destitute Southern Belle Must Save Her Plantation Home—Is a Retired Union Soldier the Answer?

Five years after the final shot was fired in the War Between the States, Selah Daughtry can barely manage to keep herself, her two younger sisters, and their spinster cousin fed and clothed. With their family's Mississippi plantation swamped by debt and the Big House falling down around them, the only option seems to be giving up their ancestral land--until a hotel management agent for the railroad offers her hope for the future.

If she'll turn her home into a hotel, Levi Riggins says, he can all but guarantee it will be saved. Selah isn't sure she entirely trusts the handsome Yankee. Yet what other options does she have? She'll have to stay on her guard . . . but she never expected to have to guard her heart.

"Full of intrigue, grit, and grace, A Rebel Heart is Beth White at her finest."--Jocelyn Green, award-winning author of A Refuge Assured


Read an excerpt.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Beth White's day job is teaching music at an inner-city high school in historic Mobile, Alabama. A native Mississippian, she writes historical romance with a Southern drawl and is the author of The Pelican Bride, The Creole Princess, and The Magnolia Duchess. Her novels have won the American Christian Fiction Writers Carol Award, the RT Book Club Reviewers' Choice Award, and the Inspirational Reader's Choice Award. Learn more at www.bethwhite.net and follow her on Facebook.

MY THOUGHTS

Beth White graces my list of must-read authors, and A Rebel Heart might be my favorite of all her books to date. I have always been captivated by stories set around the Civil War, and reading about the years of Reconstruction as families struggled to rebuild their lives and homes tugged at my heart. White seamlessly blends meticulously researched details into a multi-faceted tale populated with credible personalities and scenarios. Chapters brim with frightful, humorous, or poignant scenes (at times including all three!) and I vicariously experienced each emotion as I read. I loved so many characters in this novel...Selah and her sisters and Levi, of course, and also Mose and Horatia, Nathan and Charmion, Wyatt, and others. White does a marvelous job depicting a difficult and delicate issue as Selah seeks to forge a new relationship with her family's former slaves. Mere words can never do justice in describing the immense enjoyment and satisfaction of reading such a well-crafted novel as this. I am already eager for the next Daughtry House novel, focusing on Joelle. Of course, the teaser at the end of this novel only increased my interest! Don't miss this book and series!


Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a copy of this book free from Baker/Revell Publishers. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

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