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Whispers is a historical/fiction based on the real life of Ann Pamela Cunningham, a South Carolina plantation owner�s daughter, who although an invalid started the first national ladies association in the United States. It was Pamela who saved George Washington�s home at Mt. Vernon from being lost to certain ruin.
The above are cold unfeeling facts of the historian and predilections of the uninspired. Move with the author as we travel from Cunningham'� 1830'� slave supported cotton plantation, to George Washington'� Mount Vernon, through the Civil War and beyond.
Meet the cast of characters whom fiction alone could not have conceived of:
Ann Pamela Cunningham - petite, beautiful and self willed. It was she who suffered the long term effects of not only the misdiagnosed multiple sclerosis but the pain of loves and happiness lost.
Benjamin Perry - The accomplished lawyer, governor to be, and the only true love of Pamela. Which will he choose, the sickly devoted invalid or his mother�s powerful ambitions.
Robert Cunningham - Will the years of being a benevolent "Marster" leave his plantation intact after freedom?
Louisa Cunningham - As she withers, so do the flowers and the prospects for Rosemont.
John Cunningham - The handsome, undisciplined and scandal ridden brother of Pamela.
Grace - Pamela�s childhood friend and devoted slave. With freedom and strong men come delicate choices.
Sam & Rose - What twist of fate brings these runaway slaves from the Cunningham plantation to service at Mount Vernon.
Sarah Tracy - The sensuous secretary of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association. Will she succeed in removing Pamela, "that secessionist slave holding bitch" from the Regents post of the association.
Upton Herbert - Declined a Confederate Army commission to stay with Sarah Tracy at Mount Vernon.
George W. Riggs - Founder of the now famous bank, one of Tracy�s lovers. Where are his loyalties?
These and many others intricately weave the tapestry and triumph of one women over inconceivable odds.
Knowledge of events as they really were will be revealed as you read and ponder the "Whispers through the Mist"