The true and authentic history of Jenny Dorset ..: a novel

Woven into the tapestry of 18th-century Charleston, this comic epic traces the rise of two low-country plantation families and propels readers on a merry adventure. Jenny Dorset is a big, sprawling story set in a time and place where high adventure was afoot, depicting Charleston from its heyday in the 1760s as an energetic seaport until 1782, when it gained its independence from Britain.