June Hall McCash, named 2011 Georgia Author of the Year for her first novel, Almost to Eden, once again delivers a story of hope and renewal with Plum Orchard.
This epic tale spans a large portion of the nineteenth century and is a narrative that explores both the darkness that was slavery and the light that lives within the human heart..
Plum Orchard chronicles her journey through the Antebellum South as she strives to live in two worlds while belonging totally to neither.
Zabette, as she is called, was born the illegitimate daughter of a planter and a slave and was raised as the planter\'s daughter, so she finds herself neither completely free nor totally in bondage.
The saga is set on Cumberland Island during plantation-era Georgia and centers around a remarkable woman known as Elisabeth Bernardey.
June Hall McCash, named 2011 Georgia Author of the Year for her first novel, Almost to Eden, once again delivers a story of hope and renewal with Plum Orchard