A Rebel Heart

By Beth White

Description:

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.

Book Takeaway:

God blesses his children with mercy and forgiveness, then expects them to extend the same to those around them—both loved ones and perceived enemies.

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Why the author wrote this book:

I wanted to explore the post-Civil War recovery of Southern women struggling to support themselves—and their relationships to former slaves who become their partners and employees.