Kirjahaku

Allie Maples has a sparkle in her emerald eyes that draws men the way buttermilk draws flies on a hot summer day. She is bright, self-assured, and beautiful. Even though she just turned sixteen, she knows exactly what she wants out of life. Her ideal life is not confined to a plantation as its mistress. Allie is adventurous- she wants excitement- she wants the exotic and the mystery that comes with travel. However, when she travels to Charleston, South Carolina with her mother to visit relatives at Christmas, in the year 1860, the last thing she expects is to meet someone and fall in love.Thomas Jackson is dashing and debonair- a handsome, independent, young entrepreneur who currently makes his home in Charleston. So far, he has avoided being caught up in any young woman's web that was looking to wrangle a marriage proposal out of him; however, the first time he lays eyes on Allie Maples of Savannah, Georgia, he determines to make her his. Allie is excitingly different from the other young women he has known. Her dark, copper-colored hair, olive complexion, and emerald green eyes spark a fire in him that even a looming War Between the States is unable to extinguish... However, the war threatens to keep them apart when Thomas begins running blockades to supply the South with weapons and ammunition and the invading Northern forces begin blockading Southern ports...

In the summer of 1865, Emmaline Gulledge is eleven years old and stubborn as a mule. Determined to do exactly what she sets her mind to, she explores the mountains and valleys around her home with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and a keen eye that misses nothing. When her mother dies, Emmaline, Emmy for short, is thrust into the mystical, spiritual world of her mother's native peoples, the Tsalagi, better known as the Cherokee. Given the power of observation and shape shifting by her immortal g-great-grandfather Two Feathers, who is the keeper of the Sacred Fire's Ashes, Emmy is told that she must carry on her mother's duties and is charged with the task of becoming the family "Ka no he ha Ka no Ge sdi," the Storyteller. She is supposed to remember and pass down her family's history and tell about their ancestors. As Emmy grows older and matures, her explorations become more advanced. She discovers a hidden path that takes her beyond an ancient willow tree to a layer of the world that at first seems much like her own, but she soon discovers that it is quite different... When she stays longer than allowed a mortal, she discovers that her grandfather can travel between space and time and communicate with all peoples between the layers of her world. Emmy's Journey is a voyage through time and into the mysterious spiritual and mystical realms of the Cherokees and a world that most never knows exists.

With 1840's New Orleans as a backdrop, the story, Vicious Traditions tells the story of Desir