Rosewood is set at the end of the Civil War and is about a plantation in Tennessee. Read how the plantation goes through changes over the years according to the wishes of its different owners, it is said to be haunted, but at first no one knows for sure.
In the story, the Rosewood Plantation plays an important role in the Confederate battle plan around Nashville, although all of it will probably never be known because William Claiborne wanted it to be that way.
In the book, if William had managed to complete his plan for Rosewood, it could have drastically changed the entire outcome of the Civil War. In a time of bravery, southern hospitality, a bold hero, and ladies of culture and class, Rosewood fits the bill, because this was the time when a handshake and your word was often the only contract needed to bind most relationships. commercial transactions.
“Rosewood” then continues through the years as owner-to-owner properties do…
Read how many years later the final owner of history puts all his history pieces together!
Elizabeth had played hide-and-seek many times as a child and knew all the good places in the old house, except now it wasn’t a game and she hid in fear for her life. She could hear the men yelling and cursing as they went from room to room looking for anything of value to steal. She tried to be very calm. She carefully put her ear to the thin wall of the door where she was hiding. It was just a little old storage under the stairs and she just had a little door that opened.
That was the original opening paragraph, written many years ago by William, when in a casual conversation with his sister, the subject of ghosts came up and she mentioned a haunted house in Bridgeport, Texas. With a few imaginative details later added to it, Rosewood was born. When William Garrett’s writer friend, Rochelle E Fischer, read what William had begun to write, her own imagination took flight and with one idea after another jumping from one to another, the story became a great fictional love story and ghosts all in one
Doing a little research on these historic times uncovered some interesting facts; That there is actually a town called Linden, southwest of Nashville, Tennessee, and that some Civil War battles were fought southwest of Nashville.
In the book Rosewood, the name of the town is Lindbergh, chosen in honor of the great aviator Charles Lindbergh. Regarding the title; rosewood, good! William’s mom’s favorite flowers were roses.
Everyone who has ever read Margaret Michelle’s book “Gone with the Wind” will undoubtedly love this book with its story set in the same era, because they will undoubtedly be moved in the same way, feeling the same fearful emotions that brought the war , with the uncertainties of tomorrow, mixed with the love and romance that is always ripe at times like this…