A Long Shadow
Barri BryanHistorical romance
Available from New Concepts Publishing
ISBN: 1-58608-434-8
April 2004
| Tyler Carson works for her father, Tom Carson in the cabinet business. His partner Emmett Madison has died and Emmett's son was coming home to live and help run the business. And he was bringing his ten year old niece Amy to live with him. The partners lived next door to each other and Tyler did not want Grant to be that close. They had meant something to one another years ago and a big blow up had caused him to leave town and never return - until now.
Grant Madison had mixed feelings about coming home. He had been in the service all these years he had been away and now felt obligated to come home and make a home for his niece. His sister was spending a life term in prison for killing her husband, and he was all his niece had left of family. He was determined to make a home for her. The problem was in this part of the south the strife of integration was foremost in everyone's mind. The prejudices were running high and Grant's sympathies were with the blacks. Though he was finding he still loved Tyler he would not straddle the fence the way her and her father seemed to want to do. He had to make a stand. In A LONG SHADOW Barri Bryan writes a very interesting story about the prejudiced of the south during the time of integration. How the day the black students were going to have to sign up for school there were armed guards trying to keep the peace in a small southern town. The story is very descriptive and brings the reader to become involved in this tragic time in our history. The book is fast paced and kept me turning the pages until the very end. I would gladly read another story by this author.
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Reviewer: Mariah LeGrand |
