Bulls Island, is Dorothea Benton Frank's newest novel and it is currently residing at the #11 spot on Publishers Weekly Hardcover Bestsellers/Fiction list. After twenty years main character Betts McGree returns to her childhood home, in South Carolina, to head up a development project on pristine Bulls Island. Betts encounters resistance from the environmental arena and deals with her estranged sister, father and her partner, J. D. Langley, on this project. The author fills this spirited tale with well-drawn out characters, including formidable Charleston doyenne Louisa Langley. Betts McGee and J.D. Langley were once engaged and Louisa struggled with her son dating below his social standing. When Betts's mother dies in a car wreck, a generations-old grudge—abetted by Louisa—flares up, and Betts flees from J. D. and South Carolina. In Bulls Island Betts addresses the question "Can you go home again?" Franks's novels take her readers to the low lands of the Carolina's where life moves at a slower pace. Click here for other Frank novel's.
