Alright, she tried the literary publishers – Farrar, Strauss and Giroux among others – too much romance, too quiet. A good, solid story but too quiet, too literary, they said. Maybe Jessamine would change that.įirst, the agent sent it out to the commercial publishers – HarperCollins, Random House, etc. Reviewers had liked my work but I was still largely unknown. One of my novels had already been published by a small publisher and Greenwood Press had published my history of women of the BVI so I’d had some small success before. Her excitement was infectious and I truly began to believe that this might be my breakout novel. Once called and offered representation and bubbled with excitement over the story and its prospects. And out of those about three asked to see the entire manuscript. When I felt it was ready I began querying agents. About a year later I had my first draft which I polished and polished in between any free time I had from my regular job. The character of Arabella came to me in an old church there and I put together my story folder with postcards, synopsis, character sketches, etc. This is the gripping story of two women from two very different eras who must work together to save the island and the man they both love.I wrote Jessamine more than ten years ago after a lovely trip to the island of St. To succeed, however, she needs Arabella's help. It falls to Grace to discover the secrets of the past and right an old wrong before the island is plunged into years of turmoil. Crescens is again on the brink of violence and chaos. Ruled by a corrupt political dynasty, St. Crescens and takes up residence at Jessamine, the old Great House where Arabella once lived. More than a hundred years later, another woman, Grace Hylton, arrives on St. When those clouds burst over the island, Arabella's hopes and dreams ended and the island was changed forever. Arabella surrendered to a forbidden love even as the dark clouds of old hatreds and new injustices boiled on the horizon. Dangerous secrets and desires lurked beneath the surface of St. But it was 1878, less than fifty years after the British abolished slavery. Crescens to take up her first post as governess. Īrabella Adams was full of hope and optimism when she arrived on the Caribbean island of St. When those clouds burst over the island, Arabella's hopes and dreams ended and the island was changed.
Arabella Adams was full of hope and optimism when she arrived on the Caribbean island of St.
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