New Book for Review: Historical Romance ‘Winds of Change’ by Carole Eglash-Kosoff

Winds of Change Carole Eglash-Kosoff will be touring in December 5 – 16 and January 3 – 13 with her historical romantic fiction, Winds of Change!

The racially charged love and conflict of the critically acclaimed When Stars Align become more entrenched after the Civil War and Reconstruction.  Amy had taken her daughter, nephew, and a son she’d had never been able to acknowledge, born from her love with Thaddeus, her colored lover, to San Francisco, as a refuge from the intense racial scrutiny of the South.

They are forced to return to their old home, Moss Grove, a successful Mississippi River cotton plantation, as young adults.  They discover facts about themselves that refute everything they believed regarding both their parents and their racial background.  It changes the lives of each of them.  Bess and Stephen’s love is thwarted.  Josiah struggles with echoes of his past.

It is a tumultuous time in American history that includes the inventions of airplanes, automobiles, telephones and movies midst decades of lynchings and economic turmoil.  It is the Spanish-American War and World War I.  Racial biases complicate lives and relationships as newly arrived immigrants vie with white and Negro workers all trying to gain a piece of the American dream.  Winds of Change is a soaring historic fiction novel that stands alone but follows the next generation from those we came to know in When Stars Align into the 20th century. It is a socially relevant, historically accurate, saga of decades often overlooked in American history

READ THE EXCERPT:

There is a dance that accompanies the rhythm of our lives. It
has a logic…a pattern…a beat. Different sections of the orchestra
blending into a single melody that defines who we are. I’m a man;
you’re a woman. I’m white. I’m tall. I’m a Christian. And then…
wait a minute. It seems I’m not white. I have some Negro blood
coursing through my veins that I’d never known about. The beat of
the music suddenly changes as one section, maybe the woodwinds,
puts their instruments away. The new rhythm is discordant…a
rhythm with which I’m unfamiliar. It’s a different tune, a genre
I don’t know how to play. I’ve lost the beat. The other orchestra
members are staring at me in a different way.
I’m not sure what it all means. This isn’t the South. It’s already
1883. Slavery’s been gone for nearly twenty years and the country
has moved forward. I had a baby sister who was born colored. I’d
never known and it’s interesting, but it happened too long ago
for me to feel sad. She died, my parents are both dead, and I’m
still me. But that’s the problem. In my head I suddenly feel like a
different me.

456 pages

You can visit her website at www.windsofchange-thebook.com.

If you would like to review Winds of Change, please fill out the form below or email Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife(at)gmail.com. Please mention which date would work for you.  Deadline for inquiries end December 25 or until the tour is filled. Thank you!


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