Captain Hart. Would he keep her secrets?
For the next couple of days, Keelan awoke each morning more tense and worried than the day before. Although there were times when her father could rise and move about with less discomfort, his health continued its slow decline. His stomach rebelled against almost everything but a thin broth, and sometimes even that didn’t stay with him. Concerned, Dr. Garrison had even traveled to Charleston to purchase a new medicine, hoping it would work better.
To stay busy, Keelan spent the waning morning hours in the kitchen house, learning Ruth’s recipes before sitting with the ledgers in her uncle’s office in the afternoon. In addition to the plantation books, Uncle Jared had recently asked her to keep his business’ records as well. Those activities consume
