Readers, please join me welcoming Dot Ryan, author of Corrigans’ Pool who’s guest blogging here today, courtesy Pump Up your Book Promotion. About the book – The South is embroiled in a bitter Civil War by the time Ella Corrigan discovers that Corrigans’ Pool is much more than the exquisitely beautiful pond she had thought it to be all her life. But by the time she learns its dangerous secret she is deeply entangled in a secret of her own . . . one that has made her a virtual prisoner, hopelessly trapped in a world dreadfully different from her previous existence as mistress of her gentle father’s palatial plantation home along the Savannah River. Stunned by what she sees, she must harden herself to her new surroundings or perish . . . along with the cowed and scarred Negroes who toil in her husband’s rice swamps and cotton fields. Life’s Lessons Thank you very much for inviting me to A Book Blogger’s Diary. Lately, I’ve been looking back, thinking about my long journey from a wanna