PUBLICITY HIGHLIGHTS from Caitlin Summie, PR: • Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and other trades • Romantic Times, some blogs interested in titles with a strong romance component • Westchester Magazine, The Journal News, News 12 Westchester, The Examiner, etc. • Selected broader media in New York • Selected women’s magazines and/or websites (Redbook, PopSugar) • Selected general book bloggers • Historical fiction media and bloggers • Selected radio and podcasts • Writing blogs and websites • Alumni media • Possibly some sites interested in the Civil War • Possibly media interested in lawyers • Content marketing • Events at The Village Bookstore (Pleasantville, NY), Barnes & Noble, local libraries, regional book festivals • Social media, including Goodreads giveaway and ads

Abigail Milton was born into the British middle class, but her family has landed in unthinkable debt. To ease their burdens, Abby’s parents send her to America to live off the charity of their old friend, Douglas Elling. When she arrives in Charleston at the age of seventeen, Abigail discovers that the man her parents raved about is a disagreeable widower who wants little to do with her. To her relief, he relegates her care to a governess, leaving her to settle into his enormous estate with little interference. But just as she begins to grow comfortable in her new life, she overhears her benefactor planning the escape of a local slave—and suddenly, everything she thought she knew about Douglas Elling is turned on its head. Abby’s attempts to learn more about Douglas and his involvement in abolition initiate a circuitous dance of secrets and trust. As Abby and Douglas each attempt to manage their complicated interior lives, readers can’t help but hope that their meandering will lead them straight to each other. Set against the vivid backdrop of Charleston twenty years before the Civil War, Trouble the Water is a captivating tale replete with authentic details about Charleston’s aristocratic planter class, American slavery, and the Underground Railroad.