He only knows that he is falling in love with a mysterious woman, and there is something very suspicious about his father’s claims of having no family. She was given an opportunity to leave the south and start a new life for herself, but she did not take it because she has been working as a seamstress to earn the freedom of her deceased sister’s illegitimate twins. With her fair skin, Matt does not know Angie is a freed slave of mixed race. There he meets the lovely Angelina Rose and begins to feel some hope and the stirrings of love. He is not a soldier and feels lost and out of place as he follows the troops to Shirley Plantation in Virginia. He is conscripted against his will into serving with the Confederate army because of his father’s political leanings. It is 1862 and thespian Matthew Scott is abducted from Ohio and the theater troupe he manages. Carrie makes history come alive with her words and brings her southern setting to life so that I felt I was right there on a gorgeous Virginia plantation in the midst of the Civil War. The story itself quickly reeled me in with the conflicts of its two, endearing, main characters. Veil of Pearls by MaryLu Tyndall is a wonderfully complex, romantic love story about forbidden love and racial prejudice. Five Stars ***** I was hooked by the first line with the beautiful writing.
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