Low country

An ecologically aware woman battles her land-developer husband over the future of the island she inherited off South Carolina. He wants to build houses, she wants to preserve the island's habitat with its marshes, ponies and Gullah communities of former slaves.

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"An ecologically aware woman battles her land-developer husband over the future of the island she inherited off South Carolina. He wants to build houses, she wants to preserve the island's habitat with its marshes, ponies and Gullah communities of former slaves."@en
"Caroline Venable's life is nearly perfect--she enjoys prestige, wealth, and a handsome husband. But she has never accepted her daughter's death nearly six years ago. Whenever her grief overcomes her she flees to the island her granddaddy left her. But when her hideaway is threatened, she faces one of the toughest challenges of her life."@en
"Caroline Venable's sanctuary from the pressures of playing hostess to her husband's wealthy friends and prospective real estate clients is the untouched, marshy portion of an island off the South Carolina coast which she inherited from her Granddaddy, where wild ponies run free and the only development is a small Gullah community called Dayclear. When her husband's worsening financial situation threatens a spread of the resort development to the wild part of Peacock Island, Caro's "Old South upbringing and expectations [collide] with the new South's runaway prosperity."--Jacket."@en
"Spurred into action by her husband's plans to develop a beloved childhood retreat on a quiet, untouched island into a resort, Caroline must confront her empty life and drinking habit to save this special place in South Carolina."@en
"Caroline Venable's life is nearly perfect--she enjoys prestige, wealth, and a handsome husband. But she has never accepted her daughter's death of nearly six years ago. Whenever grief overcomes her, she flees to the island her beloved granddaddy left her. There, with the wild ponies in the untamed marshlands, she finds comfort. But when her pristine hideaway is threatened, she faces one of the toughest challenges of her life."@en
"Caroline Aubrey Gentry discovers plans to build a resort on a beautiful untouched island in South Carolina's low country, which results in her fight to save an island of wild ponies."@en
"Caroline is devasted to learn her husband wants to develop the Lowcountry island left to her by her grandfather, or lose his business. This place is the home of wild ponies and her refuge. Caroline who drinks to escape her priviledged lifestyle, must pull herself together to save the island, and face the obstacles ahead of her."@en
"Caroline Venable finds out her tycoon husband plans to build a resort on an untouched island is South Carolina's lowcountry. His plans will mean the devastation of a band of wild ponies. Spurred to action, Caroline must confront the life she has been leading."