Bulls Island

by Dorothea Benton Frank

Elizabeth "Betts" McGee returns to her hometown in the Carolina lowcountry to help her former fiance develop untouched Bulls Island.  She left under sad circumstances, and thought she would never go back again.  The secrets she brings with her will shock everyone.

I liked this book, but didn't love it.  Betts seemed too emotional to be a high powered investor, and had frighteningly bad taste in men.  I don't know how she survived and prospered in New York.  Plus, her former flames' theory that Bulls Island would be developed eventually, so it might as well be a Southerner instead of a Yankee making money, was a short-sighted, ridiculous argument.  Why not fight to keep it as a protected sight?  Oh, right, there's no money in it.  For someone who supposedly loves his culture, he comes off as a money-grubbing jerk.