Free Download | Hill Towns | Anne Rivers Siddons

Catherine "Cat" Gaillard narrates her own story, beginning with a gothic childhood of the sort that inspires folk ballads and tasteless jokes.

Orphaned at age 5 when her parents are killed in a freakish accident, Cat chooses to live on Morgan's Mountain as the ward of chilly, crazy grandparents, though saner family members are willing to take her in. She reasons that, "From there I would always know what was coming.

From there I would see it long before it saw me."

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Free Download | Low Country | Anne Rivers Siddons

Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a powerful husband--and a predictable routine of country-club luncheons, cocktail parties, and dinners hosting her husband's wealthy friends, clients, and associates in his successful land-developing conglomerate.

To escape her stifling routine, Caro drinks a little too much. But her true solace is the Lowcountry island her beloved Granddaddy left her--an oasis of breathtaking beauty that is home to a band of wild ponies. When Caro learns that her husband must develop the island or lose the business, she is devastated. The Lowcountry is her heritage--and what will happen to the ponies whose spirit and freedom have captivated her since childhood?

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Free Download | Homeplace | Anne Rivers Siddons Novel

Free Download | Homeplace | Anne Rivers Siddons Novel | After twenty-one years Micah (Mike) Win ship is making the big move--she's going home for a visit. She hasn't been back since 1963, when her father threw her out, but now he is dying and asking for her. And although she is armed with her successful journalism career and the strength found after her divorce, she is nearing forty and her sophisticated urban lifestyle is falling apart. Heading home, Mike is unprepared for a past that has lain in wait for her--one that includes an old love, a spoiled sister, and a plot to seize her family's land. And in trying to understand her long-forgotten self, she learns at last those lessons best learned early about love and loss, family and forgiveness, and the undeniable need for a place called home.

This one is about Micah Win ship Singer also known as Mike. She was born and her birth killed her mother, her father's one and only true love. She grows up in a house filled with silence and anger and mothered by her oldest sister, Dee Dee. After an angry confrontation with her father, Mike packs up and runs away from home. She manages to stay away for 22 years till her sister calls begging her to come home and help with their father, who is dying.

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