Southern History

This novel is set in the deep south in an area that has a great deal of history. The area in which the novel is set can trace its roots back before the Civil War and can even claim to have been home to one of the most well-known soldiers in the war, Nathan Bedford Forrest. For this reason, history is a major theme of the novel.

As Trinket begins to investigate the murder of her cousin’s ex-husband, she continuously runs across a story of how Forrest stole a large sum of gold meant to pay for Grant’s march further south. This money was never accounted for and hs been assumed lost. However, Trinket learns that the Richardson family in Holly Springs had the money and they left it behind when they were foreclosed out of The Cedars. The Sanders family has since...