I wrote the introduction for this edition of Celia Garth, but it appears under my pen name, Sara Donati.

She sewed, she smiled sweetly, and in secret she risked her life sending information to this man that the king's whole army could not catch, the mighty little man to whom Tarleton angrily gave the name 'Swamp Fox'. In the dressmaking shop, Celia became a spy for Marion. But as Luke said of him, 'When that man's leading a charge, he looks nine feet tall.' Then out of the swamps appeared Francis Marion. Many Americans, like Celia's handsome cousin Roy, joined the king's side. Most people thought the Revolution was lost. Caught up in the ruin were Celia and her friends - the merry-minded Darren Jimmy, whose love for Celia brought her into his tragedy the fascinating Vivian, five times married Godfrey, rich and powerful, who met disaster because he could control anything in town but the weather the daredevil Luke. The ravisher Tarleton swept through the Carolina countryside in a wave of blood and fire and debauchery.

Things did happen to Celia, but not as she had planned. She had blond hair and brown eyes and a sassy face, and she worked in a fashionable dressmaking shop. Out of the ashes of Charleston and the Carolina countryside will rise a new nation-and a love that will change Celia Garth forever in this historical romance hailed by the Chicago Tribune as 'an exciting tale of love and war in the tradition of Gone with the Wind.This is a story about a girl who wanted things to happen to her.Ĭelia Garth lived in Charleston, South Carolina, during the American Revolution. The rebel cause seems lost until the Swamp Fox, American General Francis Marion, takes the fight to the British-and one of his daring young soldiers recruits Celia to spy on the rebels' behalf. When the unthinkable occurs and the British capture and occupy Charleston, bringing fiery retribution to the surrounding countryside, Celia sees her world destroyed. From the window of the dressmaker's shop where she works, lovely Celia Garth, recently engaged to the heir to a magnificent plantation, watches all of this thrilling activity. Celia Garth is Gwen Bristow's New York Times bestselling historical novel about a dressmaker who spies for the rebel cause in Revolutionary-era Charleston.Ī bustling port city, Charleston, South Carolina, is the crossroads of the American Revolution where supplies and weapons for the rebel army must be unloaded and smuggled north.

Celia garth by gwen bristow