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Carolyn Schriber

Carolyn Schriber

About

I am a retired college professor who specialized in medieval European history  After many years of writing academic monographs, I am now indulging my love of the Civil War by writing historical fiction. But along the way, I've also learned a great deal about today's publishing atmosphere. That experience has led me to publish a handbook on avoiding the traps of self-publishing. "The Second Mouse Gets the Cheese" draws on my adventures while writing "A Scratch with the Rebels" and "Beyond All Price."

Dead Burn

Dead Burn

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<p>Terrified California residents face the shocking dilemma of yet another serial killer roaming freely in their neighborhoods. However, this time it is an evolving serial killer anomaly that relentlessly searches for, hunts down, and ingeniously traps his victims before unleashing his fiery rage. Always two steps ahead of the cops and fire investigators, the killer hones in on the next sinful target leaving a trail of bones and ashes behind as evidence. It rocks the criminal justice system to the core as a string of arson murders hits inside their turf.</p><p>Vigilante detective Emily Stone hunts serial killers and child abductors, covertly and under the law enforcement radar, with her intrinsic skills of criminal profiling and forensic investigation. With Stone’s toughest case yet, the arson serial killer immediately crosses her radar and sends her into the dark territory of a lethal pyromaniac’s mind – to the point of no return.</p><p>While following the clues of the relentless firebomber, Stone grabs the attention of a government anti-terrorist organization called GATE that oversees all law enforcement cases across the U.S., which now focuses their sights on her proven abilities. They have very specific plans for her, whether she likes it or not.</p><p>Everything teeters on the edge of reality, as Stone must battle for her life between a hired assassin and an arson serial killer. Lines are drawn on both sides of the law. Friendships and lovers are tested.</p>

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This is Volume Two of a projected three-volume series that follows the Grenville family from the Civil War into the twentieth century. "Yankee Reconstructed" tells the stories of the tumultuous years of Reonstruction, 1867 through 1877.

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<p>One beta-reader, Paul Hedden, wrote:</p> <div class="yiv0356982024"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3"><span class="yiv0356982024">An outstanding primer to Reconstruction in South Carolina.</span></font></div> <div class="yiv0356982024"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3"><span class="yiv0356982024">Well-constructed and historically accurate novel</span></font></div> <div class="yiv0356982024"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3"><span class="yiv0356982024">Relates the sad story of Reconstruction in South Carolina</span></font></div> <div class="yiv0356982024"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3"><span class="yiv0356982024">2<sup class="yiv0356982024">nd</sup> novel of the Grenville family in South Carolina is a fascinating review of South Carolina history from colonial days through the end of Reconstruction in 1878.<span class="yiv0356982024">  </span></span></font></div> <div class="yiv0356982024"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3"><span class="yiv0356982024">What passed during Reconstruction still remains today as the standard of inter-racial behavior, public and private.</span></font></div> <div class="yiv0356982024"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3"><span class="yiv0356982024">Plots and sub-plots illustrating this little understood period in South Carolina’s history.</span></font></div> <div class="yiv0356982024"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3"><span class="yiv0356982024">Discussion of problems still plaguing contemporary South Carolina and their source. The development of South Carolina’s educational system.<span class="yiv0356982024">  </span>The source of the State’s Right to Work law.</span></font></div> <div class="yiv0356982024"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3"><span class="yiv0356982024">Many facts and minutiae of South Carolina's’ early buildings and the industries and societies that used these edifices and resources including enslaved craftsmen.<span class="yiv0356982024">  </span>The character Henry conveys remarkable insight into todays’ conflict of religion and politics in a democracy.</span></font></div> <div class="yiv0356982024"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3"><span class="yiv0356982024">Additionally the fascinating bit of the history of the Carolina Marsh Tacky, a horse breed found here in South Carolina. Also the Sheldon Church, “Flemish” bond brick laying.</span></font></div> <div class="yiv0356982024"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3"><span class="yiv0356982024">The excesses of the Reconstruction (Black Republican) legislature.</span></font></div> <div class="yiv0356982024"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3"><span class="yiv0356982024">Remarkably well researched as to details.<span class="yiv0356982024">  </span>Demonstrates the deep understanding of the most current of historical research including the post-Civil War sociology of death, the legal confusions of Andrew Johnson’s approach to Reconstruction; the development of the SC Reconstruction Constitution.<span class="yiv0356982024">  </span>Imparts a good sense of the fear, on the part of the white population, of the idea of equality of the races and its consequences today.<span class="yiv0356982024">  </span>Evocative of the constant threat of violence, political and racial or both throughout the State in this period.</span></font></div> <div class="yiv0356982024"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3"><span class="yiv0356982024">Introduces to the general public the many personalities that shaped post-Civil War thought in South Carolina:<span class="yiv0356982024">  </span>Robert Smalls, Benjamin Randolph, Wade Hampton and Rufus Saxon. And other, less notable but not of less importance, people who implemented the ideas of reconstructing South Carolina:<span class="yiv0356982024">  </span><span class="yiv0356982024"> </span>e.g. Laura Towne and the Penn School and its details. </span></font></div> <div class="yiv0356982024"><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size="3"><span class="yiv0356982024">Reflects the total chaos that paralyzed South Carolina in the post war years. </span></font></div>