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Sautee Shadows: Book One of the Georgia Gold Series is the sweeping saga of four families whose lives intertwine through romance, adventure and murder, linking antebellum Georgia's coast and mountains during the mid-1800s. Journey back to a time when the foothills of Northeast Georgia were scarcely more than a frontier, a summer retreat for the state's wealthy coastal elite, verdant watercolor vistas where the footprint of the Cherokee remained. Where one half-Cherokee, orphaned girl grows up in the shadow of a mystery. Who killed her father, and what happened to the gold he mined from the Sautee Valley? And with whom does she belong, the adoptive farm family who raised her, or her white inn-keeper grandmother? Forced from the only life she's ever known and molded into her grandmother's idea of a proper young lady, Mahala Franklin finds life in Clarkesville lonely and full of challenges. But there are at least pieces of the puzzle of her past to be fit together, and relationships that will shape her future ... with Clay Fraser, her Cherokee friend who wants to be so much more, with wealthy entrepreneur and competitor Jack Randall, with whom Mahala doesn't dare to dream of more, and with Carolyn Calhoun, unwilling socialite caught between her feelings for two very different brothers. As the lives of the coastal summer people mingle with those of Habersham's natives, a tapestry of love, friendship and intrigue unfolds, a tapestry laced with a brilliant thread that will lure you through all four books of The Georgia Gold Series.

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An exciting historical novel, its roots in the forced emigration of southeastern tribes and the story expanding into mystery as the Union divides. -- Paul Yarbrough Southern Literary Review

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Denise Weimer holds a journalism degree with a minor in history from Asbury University. She's a managing editor for Smitten Romance and Heritage Beacon Historical Fiction, Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas, as well as the author of The Georgia Gold Series, The Restoration Trilogy, and a number of romantic novellas including Across Three Autumns of Barbour's Backcountry Brides Collection. Denise writes historical and contemporary romance and romantic suspense set in her home state of Georgia. She's authored eleven traditionally published novels and a number of novellas.

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