Cold Sassy Tree
Author: Olive Ann Burns
The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around–fast.On July 5, 1906, scandal breaks in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, when the proprietor of the general store, E. Rucker Blakeslee, elopes with Miss Love Simpson. He is barely three weeks a widower, and she is only half his age and a Yankee to boot. As their marriage inspires a whir….Read More
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