Exiled South

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Lizbeth Gordon a school counselor and master at facilitating conflict resolution in everyone's life but her own returns home to South Carolina after her husband's sudden death. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>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 ancestors who disappeared during Civil War Reconstruction. Curiosity drives Lizbeth into roots research that dead ends.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>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.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Can the keys to generations-long secrets open a path to family reconciliation and healing?</span></p>