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A thrown away boy with a damaged larynx from the gutters of London and a scrawny stowaway from ravaged Ireland become indentured servants to Lord Byron Trammel of Virginia in 1702. When the two immigrants land in the colonies, Will Channel is assigned to the stable where valuable Arabians are bred while Finnie Carroll, lately discovered to be a fair and lovely lassie although not a tamed one, is forced into a dress. Finnie protests her job as upstairs maid to the finicky French mistress of the grand house with Gaelic obscenities until she realizes she must choose between service and the backstreets of Norfolk. Working alongside and befriending black slaves known as the Belle family at La Belle Plantation, Will's and Finnie's fortunes are improved under the benevolence of the Trammels, and love blossoms between the unlikely pair. Their idyllic life turns to ruin when Jack Robbins, the lazy stablemaster, is upstaged by the strapping Will. And when his romantic overtures to Finnie are spurned, he vows to destroy their lives.
Ronald Blackshire, a greedy and malicious plantation neighbor who tortures his slaves, joins forces with the vengeful Robbins to gain control of La Belle. They commit murder and steal the contracts of Will and the Belles. As Blackshire's stolen chattel are taken away in chains and worked in the fields like dogs, Finnie volunteers to become Blackshire's housekeeper in order to keep a watchful eye on those taken from her. Blackshire, enamored with his beautiful new housekeeper, crosses Robbins, and puts a choice to Finnie: marry him and he will set free the Belles and allow Will to work in the stables with the horses. The shocking spoilt choice means she must make her husband hate her and prostitute herself to a fiend.
Johnnie McDonald
"The first child will be called John and the second one will be named Frank." Mr. Carroll was true to his words, even though two daughters were the outcome. Mrs. Carroll added some ie's to the names and tacked on ugly middle names (which they will not divulge) and the Carroll sisters proceeded to grow up hearing the old song: "Frankie and Johnny" sung everywhere they went in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the beginning, Frankie and Johnnie were embarrassed by their boy names, but when teenage years rolled around, their monikers gained them a lot of attention. Frankie hopped into Johnnie's Studebaker and they cruised Boot's Drive-in, where the sister team attracted boys with their bell-bottoms, wit and names. Frankie Carroll and Johnnie Carroll McDonald have teamed up again to write a series of hen lit novels. And what qualifies them to be authors? Johnnie, somewhat buttoned up and motivated, heeded their mother's advice to be all that she could be, earned an MBA and honed a successful career as a human resources administrator. Frankie, emulating their gregarious father, took a different path. While also establishing a career, she acted in and directed little theater, and played a little poker on the side. Extensive life drama, travel, and motherhood were thrown in the mix to enrich their creative imaginations. Frankie resides in Tulsa where she works in the health career industry. Johnnie sits lonely at the computer in the foreign land of New Jersey, where she puts on the paper the crazy plots she and her sister cook up.
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