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Caroline Cleveland paints the reality of living in the low country of South Carolina. Her book was written after the shooting at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, even though her setting was Walterboro, SC. The predjudice in the south at that time and maybe always.

Enter the characters, Zach Stander an attorney fighting his way back to the top. His lover Addie Stone is a private detective. Of course, the alleged criminal Sam Jenkins, a black man , who is found bending over the body with blood all over him.

We meet the other key players, Elijah Jenkins, grandfather of…

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