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DEATH ON A SOUTHERN BREEZE
Mark de Castrique
Bella Rosa Books ISBN # 978-1-933523-34-7
$13.95

YA historical mystery

JUNE 1860 – A new locomotive christened A Southern Breeze steams across the Carolina
countryside carrying seventeen-year-old Jeb Bennett and his twin sister Rachel Leigh
to the exhilarating promise of a summer in Charleston.
While storm clouds gather over the landscape, fiercer storms rage inside the
passenger cars.  The tensions between North and South rapidly escalate until one
traveler’s journey abruptly and brutally ends. Who was the murderer?  Was the victim
the real target?  Amid swirling suspicions and deceptive intrigue, Jeb and Rachel
Leigh join Pinkerton Detective Jonathan Ward in a race to unmask a killer.
But murder isn’t the only evil Jeb must confront. As motives and suspects abound,
Jeb learns what it means to place a price on a human life, not only as a victim of
murder, but also as property to be traded and sold.
The final showdown means hard choices, a test of loyalties, and a face-to-face
encounter with Death On A Southern Breeze.