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Paperback. Condición: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Signed by the Author. Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illus. stiff green wrappers), 248 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: Only through the clear eyes of an innocent young girl could this adventure be told. You'll relive That Time, the 1930s and '40s, That Place, the Florida Everglades, and meet a tapestry of unforgettable characters, who leap off the pages. You'll delight at the unlikely friendship of Sammy and Dessa, the Black woman from the Bahamas, and their escapades as they romp through this fast paced story of life and love in rural Florida. Eben Hunter arrived in the Glades in 1929 with a trunk full of money and enough ambition to become the wealthiest man there. But there were those who questioned how he had acquired his wealth and were determined to expose him. Maureen Ahern, the most beautiful girl he's ever seen -- his Lenore. He had to have her. For her hand in marriage he gave his large land holdings in Georgia to her father and moved her to his magnificent mansion Elsinore in Florida. But could she bring him happiness? Dessa held the key to the Hunter fortune, the only secret she kept from Sammy, whom she loved more than her only child, a bitter, cunning young man bound for trouble. Sammy -- Why didn't General bark when Dessa showed up at their place? Did she have those special island powers? The headstrong, inquisitive child became Dessa's friend, protector and her beacon of hope. From Author's Note: This book in autobiographical and biographical. Many liberties were taken with the actual facts. Dessa, the real Dessa, was instrumental in helping me adjust to the trails and thrills of growing up in rural Florida. This book is a fictionalized account of that period. Literature, Historical Fiction, Historic Fiction, Floridiana, Florida, Americana TAS.