The Idol’s Daughter

About the Book

Christine stood watching her father take his third curtain call to the thunderous cheering of the theater audience. Her father had just become the idol of the London stage. The adulation, however, did not stop him from forsaking the stage and his family when a tragic accident happened on his stage a short time later. Twelve years have passed without a word from her father, and the First World War has begun and is dangerously near. Christine is sent to America to her father. She does not look forward to their reunion. She is abandoned again when she arrives in New York and is denied entry. She finds that he is in Seattle. Fearing being sent back to England, she slips onto a Canadian boat docked at the pier. Christine finally reaches her father, joins the Women’s Army Signal Corps, and goes to Europe with the army. At the end of the war, she returns to Atlanta, her husband’s home. This is just the beginning of her adventurous life full of romance, mystery, and events that will change her world.

About the Author

This is Carolyn’s first fictional novel. It was in the computer for twenty years because of her gypsy yearnings. She has made her home moving between the marshes of Saint Augustine, Florida, and the pull of the Great Smoky Mountains in Maggie Valley, North Carolina. Her friends continually ask her to tell her entertaining stories, and now she has in The Idol’s Daughter. She has incorporated Atlanta, her birthplace, and other interesting facts of her background into the story. Her earlier years were spent on the tennis court and attending classes at the High Museum of Art. Now she entertains herself with her flowers, painting, and traveling the world. Her inspiration for the book was meeting a grand old lady who was a French translator for General Pershing in the First World War.