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When his business fails, Billy DeLoach moves his family to a caretaker’s cabin on the family’s old plantation—after he sells the plantation. His teenage daughter, DeVeaux helps the family out by working as a gopher in the only nice restaurant in town—which isn’t saying much.
DeVeaux keeps hoping things will get better for her family, but her dad keeps digging the family deeper in debt even as he struggles to get out of it. Now DeVeaux has to be taken out of her beloved school and sent to a cheaper one. The next step will be a public school, which her former blue-blood parents hope it won't come to. When a cousin the family is responsible for has to drop out of college due to funds, the family hits rock bottom. Is there any hope to pull out of the current circumstances? Will the family learn to be content?
GRACE AT LOW TIDE is written completely in DeVeaux’s point of view. I found it very hard to get into this story and struggled to keep reading. There is no real plot for the story, things just happen.
On the other hand, DeVeaux has some pretty colorful Southern friends and
relatives, Charleston blue-bloods and red necks alike, and the
characterization of these are absolutely excellent. The book is worth
reading for that point alone.
Reviewed by Laura V. Hilton
for The Road to Romance
May 10, 2005
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