After years of writing, much research, hours upon hours of editing – and more than a few tears – Discovering Caroline is finally printed, bound and published! And to think – it all started at my dining room table with…
a laptop and an idea.
A sailor’s bunk on the Susan Constant at anchor in Historic Jamestown.
Finding movement restricted, she sucked in a horrified gasp – she was fettered – bound to a small wooden berth on what she surmised was a ship of some kind…Discovering Caroline.
Overgrown thicket at Cape Henry, Virginia.
Looking towards a forest filled with massive trees and thick brush abounding in tangles of vines and creepers, she felt a sudden urge to bolt – to dash towards the breaking waves before MacGregor weighed anchor – to promise him whatever he wished if only he would see her returned. – Discovering Caroline
A path through the forest at Yorktown Battlefield in early March.
Though the colony was in the last days of autumn, vines and undergrowth thrived in a wild mass of tangles beneath towering loblolly pines stretching heavenward, eclipsing the sun. – Discovering Caroline
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