Southern Secrets Author:Nelle McFather Atlanta media mogul Cane Winslow stands looking out over the estate his half-sister owns on an island in Georgia. From his perch on the mansion's balcony, Cane spies lovely Tally Malone, a teenage nymph who so enchants him, he swears someday she'll be his.... — Young Tally doesn't mind growing up poor on this island her mother... more »39;s family once owned. She loves the easy-living folks and the Moss Island lore. She doesn't even mind helping out at the big house, where her mother, once its heiress, now works as a maid. Only her mother's unhappiness causes Tally to dream of wresting Camilla Hall from Lucy Cantrell and returning it to her.
Tally finds Cane Winslow's interest in her flattering and seductive, but it's Lucy Cantrell's son with whom she falls in love. Tally and Nick share a few magical summers, until Lucy succeeds in pulling them apart, and Tally goes off to work for Cane's TV empire in Atlanta. Suddenly the many secrets of Moss Island come bubbling to the surface, and when the history of greed, lies and lust is finally untangled, Tally has to make some heart-wrenching choices about which man's love is true, and who really belongs in Camilla Hall.« less