Cotton
by Victoria Pitts Caine
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Print $12.99
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About the Book
Running from a life of poverty,
16 year old Cotton Ramsey escapes the Savannah River bottomland to New York.
Twenty years later, she has changed her name and runs a large pharmaceutical
company, which belonged to the family of her late husband. When Beau Simpson,
her first love, arrives to deliver the news of her daddy’s untimely death, the
life she struggled to leave behind calls her home.
My review
A little different take on the
rags to riches story, Caine has created a fanciful tale with all the thrills of
New York glamour. The story begins with a glimpse of the home life of poor
share croppers in the rural south. Cotton is one daughter in a very large,
struggling family growing, you guessed it, cotton. By the time she steals her
opportunity to make a better life for herself, the story switches to decades
later and another glimpse of the life she has won.
Alone, widowed, and running a
company which we see very little of on her own, we learn that Cotton has cut
ties so completely with her southern family that she doesn’t know of their own
turnabout story. In fact, her beloved daddy had done well for the family after
Cotton left. When she is informed of his mysterious death by none other than a
lost love who also escaped into a glitzy world of unseemly wealth, she is ready
to return to leave cold New York for her warm southern roots, no matter how
welcome or unwelcome her long-lost siblings make her feel. But Cotton is still
so uncertain of herself that she’s willing to let a soaring leap of willful
misunderstanding drag her into despair. Along the way, Cotton learns how to
appreciate the people around her and see life with a fresh outlook.
Told through two points of view,
the reader sees both sides of the story through Cotton, and her love interest,
Beau. Readers who love Jackie Collins and other writers of rich and famous
romantic heroes and heroines will enjoy this story of learning what really
matters.
About the Author
Victoria Pitts Caine resides in
Fresno, California. Her first passion is her family, followed closely by
writing and exotic gem collecting. Victoria is also an award winning author who
has published both fiction and nonfiction articles in Seekers, Short Stuff, HI Families, The Front Porch and The Manzanita
Literary Journal. She has also received an honorable mention at the William
Saroyan Writer's Conference, special recommendation in the Writer's Journal
poetry contest and second place in the Writer's Journal 2004 romance contest.
