Welcome! I'm Dot Ryan, author of Corrigans' Pool. 

If you have read  my Civil War era romanace novel and liked it, you can now read the unedited Part One sample of the UPCOMING SEQUEL here on my website. (Please keep in mind that the sample is a rough draft and you will find errors). The entire sequel will be available in book form hopefully before the end of 2010; I'll keep you posted on the date! THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY SITE,  AND  A VERY SPECIAL THANKS  FOR YOUR WONDERFUL COMMENTS ABOUT CORRIGANS' POOL!

MAY 15, 2010 UPDATE: CORRIGANS' POOL HAS BEEN NAMED A FINALIST IN THE 2010 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS!  MAY 18 UPDATE: CORRIGANS' POOL ALSO A FINALIST IN 2010 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS!

About Corrigans' Pool In this novel, the genteel ways of the old South are woven together with its coarser threads of infamy—slavery.  Historically accurate, Corrigans' Pool reveals a tale of love, mystery, humor, and tragedy ... when a young Southern  woman marries the wrong man and lives to regret it ....

Bitter with thoughts of the darkly handsome stranger who promised to marry her and then left town without a word, Ella Corrigan hastily weds a neighboring planter—a man whose cold indifference is merely a disguise for cunning insanity. His cruelty to his slaves horrifies her and, although her family has owned slaves for generations, she questions the concept of human bondage for the first ... while desperately longing for her cherished Greenpoole plantation and Corrigan's Pool ... a beautiful phenomenon of nature that the slaves call "Conjuring Pool" for reasons they cannot explain when asked.

 The South is embroiled in a bitter Civil War by the time Ella Corrigan discovers that Corrigans' Pool is much more than the exquisitely beautiful pond she had thought it to be all her life. But by the time she learns its dangerous secret she is deeply entangled in a secret of her own ... one that has made her a virtual prisoner, hopelessly trapped in a world dreadfully different from her previous existence as mistress of her gentle father's plantation home along the Savannah River. 

 As Union troops burn their way across Georgia and swarm onto Ella's property and then into Savannah, she must make a harrowing journey downriver where danger lurks around every shadowy bend. Can she save herself and those who depend on her? What will she do when the past that she has long blamed for her misery steps unexpectedly out of the darkness to face her?