Ground Sweet as Sugar: The Complete Story

This must-have collectors edition includes Ground Sweet as Sugar and The Virtues of Vice the alternate-ending novella Into the Complete Unknown and Catherine C. Heywoods research notes on Building the World of Seven Stars.1797: After a century of clarifying oppression Ireland seethes on the brink of rebellion. It waits on one violent tremor-the execution of a seventeen-year-old girl. All Charlotte Dillon wants is to escape. When she slips her fate she discovers her future lies in the hands of James Blair a sugar planter with deep ties to her enemies.Bound to James for seven years Charlotte must find a way to conceal her true identity and crime even as they set sail for the West Indies even as they confront the limits of their endurance even as they fall in love.Meanwhile an ocean away a rebellion is unfolding and a mystery unraveling that threaten the tenderness growing between them. Through harrowing battles and the ache of longing James and Charlotte must face devastating reckonings to finally know the sweetness theyve earned.Sweeping from Irelands bleeding battlefields to St. Croixs burning sugarcane fields Ground Sweet as Sugar: The Complete Story is the entire saga of power punishment and undying love.More on Into the Complete Unknown...1801: James Blair wakes in pain and adrift on the Caribbean Sea with no memory of how he got there. No memory he soon discovers of the last eight years of his life. All he wants is to retreat to what he knows but forces around him demand he confront a tangled life he cant seem to bear.Resolved to leave James for good Charlotte Dillon flees the West Indies for a new life. But the most powerful woman in France and a mysterious man who seems to know her secrets disturb her quiet life in the vine rows of Montmartre. And little does she know that the one man who still moves her is the one man whos still coming for her.Sweeping from a careless Caribbean to a restless France Into the Complete Unknown is Book III in the epic Ground Sweet as Sugar saga of power punishment and undying love.