Exiled South

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Pub Date 03 Jan 2022 | Archive Date 05 Feb 2022
Koehler Books | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles

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Description

Lizbeth Gordon, a school counselor, master at facilitating conflict resolution in everyone’s life but her own, returns home to South Carolina after her husband’s sudden death.

Seeking solace at the ramshackle family cottage, she walks the winter beach, but the quiet life doesn’t last. An elderly aunt has troubling family stories: a blockade runner hunted as a traitor after the fall of Charleston, and a mixed-race child who vanished with her mother in 1866. A quest for the truth drives Lizbeth into roots research that dead ends.

Tentacles of the past reach across the continents when Lizbeth takes a job at an international school in Rio de Janeiro. She meets a multiethnic descendant of Confederate exiles, with the Gordon surname and nineteenth-century documents. Robert Gordon’s letters describe bold escapes from Federal blockaders and Civil War intrigue in Scotland. Laurette Gordon’s diary shares a heart-wrenching story of sacrifice.

Can the keys to generations-long secrets open a path to family reconciliation and healing?

Lizbeth Gordon, a school counselor, master at facilitating conflict resolution in everyone’s life but her own, returns home to South Carolina after her husband’s sudden death.

Seeking solace at the...


A Note From the Publisher

HARDCOVER: 9781646635467


EBOOK: 978-1-64663-545-0

HARDCOVER: 9781646635467


EBOOK: 978-1-64663-545-0


Marketing Plan

• Author’s website: www.harrietcannon.com

• Social Media Platforms: Facebook author page, LinkedIn

• Bookstore readings

• Advertisement in writer’s communities: The Pacific Northwest Writers Association, Women Fiction Writers Association, Sisters in Crime, Historical Novel Society of North America.

Selling Points:

Exiled South is a novel that fits beautifully with the popular commercial and literary themes of cultural identity, family and belonging.

Exiled South is a fast paced, complex, upmarket novel with a strong female protagonist, international adventure, and love of the land in the American South.

• Harriet Cannon gained recognition for her writing with Mixed Blessings: A Guide to Multicultural and Multiethnic Relationships, a non- fiction book she co-authored. Published in 2013, it continues to sell on Amazon.

• Author’s website: www.harrietcannon.com

• Social Media Platforms: Facebook author page, LinkedIn

• Bookstore readings

• Advertisement in writer’s communities: The Pacific Northwest Writers...


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