"ILONA'S MOUNTAIN" is a woman's historical adventure novel circa
1820-1850. What follows is an engrossing action-packed tale of a
young woman's struggles in an era where violence and conflict
exists in a male-dominated society. The heroine is a destitute
young girl, born 1820 into a sharecropper's family. Adopted by the
famous Colonel Wade Hampton of America's Revolutionary War, Ilona
Christine Rutledge grows up on the Carolina showplace, Hampton
Plantation. Over the years the young Ilona matures as an educated
southern lady and an astute businesswoman.
Using plantation slaves, the heroine farms a sizeable garden,
opens highway vegetables stand, and wisely shares her profits with
the slaves.
By her middle teens, she finances the re-floating of a sunken
riverboat from the waters of Savannah, Georgia. She hires a New
Orleans marine engineer to raise the derelict, refit it, and
fashion it into an opulent riverboat casino. Unexpectedly, heavily
armed enemies strike.
Within years, "That Rutledge intruder," now known as The River
Queen, acquires a fleet of elegant stern-wheeler gambling boats.
Accumulating immense wealth, she helps many people, unwittingly
including those who secretly plot to kill her.
The grisly showdown comes when the duelist, Randolph Holcombe,
pursues, traps, then challenges "Gray Hair," leader of the murder
conspiracy, inside a snow-covered mountain cave. In spite of a
surprising and horrible confrontation, the actual identity of "Gray
Hair" remains hidden. Only suspicions point to why he hates The
River Queen so much.
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