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Amelia's Gold: A novel of romance, ruin, resolve and redemption in the American Civil War
Amelia's Gold: A novel of romance, ruin, resolve and redemption in the American Civil War
Amelia's Gold: A novel of romance, ruin, resolve and redemption in the American Civil War
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September 3, 1864, 4 a.m.
Somewhere off the Coast of North Carolina

The sleek Sea Breeze, staggered by the blockader's fusillade, now leaned like a drunk on a lamp post. Fireworks spewed from the engine room. Then it vanished under the waves, the gold in its hold plunging towards Blackbeard's wreck whence it was wrested many years before.
Now… only a lifeboat with six survivors, all lost in the sullen silence of their shattered lives. Amelia Beach confronted her own torments: three lives lost, her family fortune gone, the Confederate cause probably scuttled as well.
She ached to follow the ship down….to quiet oblivion and relief from remorse. But even this meager reverie was thwarted by nuisances of remaining alive: a queasy stomach, the roll of the lifeboat and the sloshing of greasy bilge water into her shoes and icy feet.
Dry shoes. Warm feet. Like a lamp that wouldn't snuff out, Amelia's mind flickered with images of home: roast goose, sherry in crystal goblets and candelabras aglow. And there was sister Lucy, pretty as a porcelain doll, imploring Daddy to buy her the cobalt blue booties in the window of Savannah Mercantile.
Now all Amelia could see on the horizon was the gray sea melding into the starless night.
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PublisherBookBaby
Release dateOct 10, 2020
ISBN9781098332235
Amelia's Gold: A novel of romance, ruin, resolve and redemption in the American Civil War
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James D. Snyder

Jim Snyder lives along the Loxahatchee River in Tequesta, Florida and is active in organizations to conserve Florida's first Wild and Scenic River. He is also a former board chairman of the Loxahatchee River Historical Society. A graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Snyder spent over forty years as a Washington correspondent and magazine publisher before resettling in South Florida and continuing his love of writing as an author.

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