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By Michael Phillips

Shenandoah Sisters Books

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Cover for Angels Watching Over Me

Losing both their families during the onset of the Civil War, the daughter of a plantation owner and a daughter of a slave join forces and work to overcome their preconceptions in order to make a life for themselves.

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Cover for A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton

Book 2 of Shenandoah Sisters. Mayme and Katie, from entirely different worlds, have been thrown together in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. Just teenagers, they are left to survive only by their own wits and shared experiences. Gradually, they are learning to appreciate each other's strengths and to shore up each other's weaknesses. Out of their efforts to simply stay alive comes a growing awareness of the Lord's love and care for them, as well as the dim outlines of a plan to keep Rosewood Plantation operating. The book continues the story begun in Angels Watching Over Me, of two very appealing but contrasting characters and their secret mission to provide a sanctuary for others who have been left alone and adrift by a tragic war.

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Cover for The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart

In this third installment of the exciting Shenandoah Sisters series, Katie, the daughter of a plantation owner, and Mayme, the daughter of a slave, must save the plantation from foreclosure, while trying to solve the mysterious appearance and then disappearance of a long-lost relative. Simultaneous.

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Shenandoah Sisters Book 4, the sequel to The Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart . For over a year, Mayme--a former slave--and Katie have lived together on Katie's plantation, hiding the fact that they are orphans of war to avoid being separated. Together they have sheltered others and battled threats of foreclosure, theft, and deadly danger. But now the girls face what seems like the certain end of their scheme. A hard-nosed relative of Katie's father discovers--and exposes--their secret. He claims Rosewood as his own and forces Mayme and the other blacks to leave. Katie decides she must leave as well. Is this the end of their way of life? Will the girls ever be together again?

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