Chatting Books Online Year 2, Day 105. Today's recommended book is the Hot off the Presses new book by C H Lawler: The Burden of Cane.
In 1915, a widow arranges for the acclaimed English spiritualist and medium Gloria Osborne Leonard to come to Louisiana to contact her husband who was recently killed in the fields of their sugar plantation. The widow had something very important she needs to ask her late husband.
On a ship leaving America for England, a man with an eyepatch stands at the railing and throws something into the ocean. An Irish priest traveling onboard is watching and strikes up a conversation with the man and agrees to hear his confession. As they go into the warmth of the ship's cabin, the priest realizes that the thing the one-eyed man threw in the ocean was a revolver.
The Burden of Cane is the story of a society woman with a scandalous past, a West Point trained engineer with a future in ruins, a boy's promise to his dying father, and a bitter rivalry that ends in death.
Dr . Lawler's newest book is a paperback, 470 pages long and is currently selling for $20.00 a copy.
Dr. Lawler will be visiting with us at The Conundrum on July 16 to launch this new book with a discussion and book signing.
