Bulls Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
Betts and JD were childhood sweethearts and both from old southern families in Charleston . Once they announce their engagement—tragedy strikes, lives are changed, the engagement is broken and Betts runs away to New York . Twenty years later, Betts returns to Charleston under duress. Her job as a top investment bank executive leads her back to Charleston to work with JD on a development project on Bulls Island . She hasn’t returned to Charleston or seen JD since she left. Betts is estranged from her family. Emotions run high—Betts will struggle with revealing a secret that could threaten everything that is important to her. This is a great story with romance, family honor and southern wit and a crazy gator to boot! This is Dorothea Benton Frank at her best!
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