Ground Sweet As Sugar
by Catherine C. Heywood
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Pub Date Jan 19 2021 | Archive Date Feb 10 2021
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Description
The unforgettable coming-of-age saga of one girl’s fight for her freedom, her country, and her heart…
1797: After a century of clarifying oppression, Ireland seethes on the brink of rebellion. It waits on one violent tremor—the execution of a seventeen-year-old girl. All Charlotte Dillon wants is to escape. When she slips her fate, she discovers her future lies in the hands of James Blair, a sugar planter with deep ties to her enemies.
Bound to James for seven years, Charlotte must find a way to conceal her true identity and crime, even as they set sail for the West Indies, even as they confront the limits of their endurance, even as they fall in love.
Meanwhile, an ocean away, a rebellion is unfolding and a mystery unraveling that threaten the tender sweetness growing between them. And when the fight comes to her, Charlotte finds herself torn between her cause and her heart.
Sweeping from Ireland’s bleeding battlefields to St. Croix’s burning sugarcane fields, Ground Sweet as Sugar is Book I in an epic saga of power, punishment, and undying love.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
History meets one brilliant imagination in this epic tale! — For the Love of a Book
A sweeping, epic, page turning adventure that I could not put down. Every imaginable element fills its delectable pages: suspense, romance, friendship, loyalty, adventure… The descriptions are mesmerizing. The characters layered. The writing style one of a kind. I loved it! — Author A.R. Hadley
This entire story from start to finish held me captive… I was completely caught up in everything that happens with Charlotte… [She] touched something in me and I'm beyond anxious as to what will happen next after one heck of an explosive ending. — MJ Loves to Read
A story of connection, passion, injustice, and secrets; a story of two lands caught up in oppression and strife, pulling the reader into a world where danger and desire burns freely, and where the protagonist’s courage can cause both pain and pleasure. — Books, Tea, and Me
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781951699079 |
| PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Krista S, Reviewer
Ground Sweet as Sugar is the first book in a series. In 1797 Charlotte Dillon is set to be hanged for the murder of an upper class boy. She is sympathetic to the Irish Rebellion and the prosecutors believe that to be the reason behind the murder. The day before her execution, a man comes to the gaol to purchase indentured servants to sail to St Croix. He is looking for women jailed for being whores. Women that know who Charlotte is, push her into the line and the man buys her and puts her on the ship. She soon finds herself in servitude on the island of St Croix. This book is not dual timeline, but it is dual place as it mostly tells about Charlotte and her life in St. Croix, but it also continues to keep us abreast of the events in Ireland and the ongoing rebellion. Thank you #NetGalley for allowing me to review this enjoyable book and and give my honest opinion. #GroundSweetasSugar.
Hallie S, Reviewer
Wow. I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It's set in late 1700s West Indies and follows the main character, Charlotte Dillon, daughter of an Irish rebel. She is introduced as a murderer and finds a way to escape the gallows by serving in a brothel in St. Croix. She ends up catching the eye of a local sugar planter and ends up serving as an indentured servant on his plantation.
Things get complicated as the sugar planter, the plantation driver, and other plantation owners are taken with her, all for very different reasons.
Charlotte fights against her own feelings while also trying to secure a place in the world where she doesn't have to answer to anyone but herself. She's an admirable character and you'll find yourself cheering for her as she endures challenge after challenge.
This is one of a two-book series and I can't wait to get my hands on the next one to see how Charlotte's story plays out.
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