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BELLE POINTE
June 2006, MIRA Books, ISBN # 0-7783-2310-2
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Houston Author Karen Young Launches 34th Novel
For release June 1, 2006
USA Today best-selling author Karen Young will be launching
her 34th novel, BELLE POINTE, June 1, 2006. Ms.
Young has been writing popular fiction for 25 years and is
known for her sensitive treatment of contemporary issues facing
women. BELLE POINTE is set in the Mississippi Delta, a region
that is more than familiar to Ms Young. Her grandson is actually
from a long line of cotton farmers who've lived in the Delta
for five generations. Young, herself a native of Mississippi,
points out that Tallulah and Belle Pointe are both completely
fictitious and none of the characters are meant to resemble
anybody she’s ever met. But she admits “that the temptation
to spin a story in such an interesting place was irresistible.”
About this
book:
BELLE
POINTE Is waiting for someone to uncover its secrets…
Anne
Whitaker: Faced with an unexpected
loss, Anne returns to the hot and sultry Mississippi Delta,
leaving her husband, Buck, to ponder his future – with or
without her. Looking for distraction, she immerses herself
in the history of Belle Pointe, the plantation house that
has been home to generations of Whitakers, including her husband.
Buck
Whitaker: A professional athlete,
Buck is in an emotional tailspin when his career is jeopardized
by scandal. Then his wife adds to his troubles by threatening
divorce and fleeing to Mississippi, a place that holds bitter
memories for him.
Victoria
Whitaker: By marrying into the Whitaker
family, Victoria has enjoyed a life of privilege and position
as matriarch of Belle Pointe. But now her daughter-in-law
Anne has unwittingly uncovered family secrets that Victoria
does not want revealed – secrets that will change the course
of Whitaker family history – secrets that will change Anne’s
own life, as well.
At a charity
event to raise money in which her husband St. Louis Jacks
star pitcher Buck Whitaker is the featured speaker, a distracted
Anne knows she must tell her spouse that she is ten weeks
pregnant. When she starts bleeding, she informs Buck that
she is carrying his child and needs to go home.
He persuades her to let him give his talk then they will depart.
On the way home he acts as if he does not want the child
-- just before they crash when he swerves to avoid a deer
in the road. She miscarries.
Unable to
forgive Buck for his behavior before the accident, Anne leaves
him to return to their hometown of Tallulah, Mississippi where
she hopes to heal and determine whether she should divorce
him. To pass time, Anne begins looking into the history of
BELLE POINT, the plantation owned by her husband’s family.
Her investigation begins to reveal secrets that frighten her
mother-in-law who fears her standing as a pillar of society
would crumble so she will do anything to insure they remain
buried. Buck follows Anne home because he loves his wife
and wants her back in his life, but first he knows he needs
to gain her forgiveness with how he reacted when she announced
her pregnancy.
Karen Young
resides in a suburb of Houston, Texas and is currently at
work writing a trilogy mystery series.
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