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happy friday!
what are you planning to read this weekend?
i'm running out of time before my audiobook copy of the indigo heiress returns to the library, so that's definitely my reading priority right now.
first line: amid the timeless silence of the verdigris parlor, juliet remained seated in her chippendale chair... for the third hour.
page 56: dawn promised another sweltering day, and a final indigo harvest was underway.
about the book
Virigina plantation life is all she has ever known.
But could the life she was meant to live be waiting on a distant shore?
In 1774, Juliet Catesby lives with her father and sister at Royal Vale, the James River plantation founded by her Virginia family over a century before. Indigo cultivation is her foremost concern, though its export tethers her family to the powerful Buchanan clan of Glasgow, Scotland.
When the heir of the Buchanan firm arrives on their shores, Juliet discovers that her father has arranged for one of his daughters to marry the Scot as a means of canceling the family's crippling debt. Confident it will be her younger, lovelier sister, Juliet is appalled when Leith Buchanan selects her instead.
Despite her initial refusal, Juliet realizes that fleeing Virginia is her only choice after finding herself in the midst of a scandal. The ship just leaving the harbor for Glasgow is her only hope. But she will soon realize that being part of the complex and calculating Buchanan clan is not the sanctuary she imagined--and the man who saved her from ruin is the very one she must now save in return.
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and be sure to stop by reading is my superpower, rose city reader, + my head is full of books for a peek into other books.
Hmm.. Wondering why it is the FINAL Indigo Harvest? Guess I'd have to read on to find out. // I know what you mean about racing the clock against library returns. Ha!
ReplyDeleteI hope you finish this before your time runs out! It does sound good. I wonder what scandal she's involved in and what it is she has to save him from!
ReplyDeleteI hope you managed to finish this before the library borrow was up, sometimes that reading against the clock feeling is fun :)!
ReplyDeleteVeros @ Dark Shelf of Wonders