Thriller set on a private CARIBBEAN ISLAND
Fireburn
Location(s): US Virgin Islands
Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
Era(s): 1878
The Danish-owned island of St Croix vibrates with passion and tension as Anna Clausen, a young Anglo-Danish woman returns to her childhood home after her mother’s death. Her heart sinks at what she finds on arrival.
The unwelcome lust of one man and forbidden love for another makes Anna’s return to St Croix even more turbulent. Despite the decline in the sugar industry she is determined to retain Anna’s Fancy but must first win the trust of her field workers, of Sampson, the foreman, and the grudging respect of Emilione the cook and local weed woman.
Fireburn tells of the horrors of a little-known, bloody period of Caribbean history. Anna weathers personal heartache and faces the workers rebellion of 1878, thirty years after emancipation. She challenges the conventions of the day and confronts the hostility of the predominantly white male landowners.
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