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By Carolyn Rawls Booth
the Between the Rivers trilogy

Between the Rivers	Bandeaux Creek	A Chosen Few

Aunt Mag's Recipe Book: Heritage Cooking from a Carolina Kitchen Authentic recipes and food culture, drawn from the Between the Rivers novels

"The saga continues in this mysterious, enthralling, romantic sequel." — Our State Magazine

BETWEEN THE RIVERS, BOOK 2

Bandeaux Creek

Carolyn Rawls Booth
Illustrated by K. A. McKendry
5.5 x 8.5 paperback; 448 pages; illustrations
ISBN 978-0975591031
$18.95 trade paperback

Maggie Lorena Ryan leaves her husband and sons looking after the farm and homestead in Colly, North Carolina, in the midst of the Roaring Twenties and journeys north to publish her novel. But while Maggie's courted by a well-to-do set of friends and a handsome young doctor, Tate finds comfort in Patty Sue McBryde, the fast, notorious wife of an accused killer incarcerated in the state mental hospital. When Maggie returns, it's with a changed vision of her writing career, her love life, and most of all, her home and family.

If you've followed the stories of Maggie and the indomitable Aunt Mag in Between the Rivers, you'll enjoy renewing your acquaintances with these old friends and meeting their kin from Bandeaux Creek. Novelist Carolyn Rawls Booth draws on an intimate knowledge of Southeastern North Carolina history, culture, and characters in this tale of ambition, crime, love, heartbreak, and what it means to come home.

As Aunt Mag would have said, "there's more to it"—and here you have it.

"Carolyn Rawls Booth has woven her novel securely into the fabric of Wilmington’s history. The mighty Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, the streetcar system, historic buildings, a quirky Roaring ‘20s celebration, and ever-seductive Wrightsville Beach: they are all here—with lots of fresh characters." —Susan Taylor Block

"A fitting sequel . . . Worthy of a spot on anyone's bookshelf as an example of putting a face on local history." —Bladen Journal

[Bandeaux Creek] provides a taste of the Roaring Twenties moderated by the hardships of back country living and sweetened by the depiction of characters filled with love and devotion to their families and friends. —Cy Hogue, author of A Tangled Mass

A rich look and listen into the dramas of Southern extended families of the early 1900s . . . told in authentic dialogue of the time, as the variety of characters deal with the historic changes of that era, including, with humor and authentic details, the new lure of the automobile in their lives. —Marian Coe, author of Eve's Mountain and Rachel's Story

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