Diary of Olivia Bellamead set in the 1800's
Part of Southern Dreams Series

Diary of Olivia Bellamead is a stand-alone book

​Diary of Olivia Bellamead is a love story telling tales of the struggles of the South, along with heartbreaking stories of the North, binding them together.

A letter clutched in the hand of a young Southern girl, a young Yankee soldier writing in dim light out on the battlefield, tells of an enduring love that even the Civil War isn’t able to destroy.

Southern Dreams begins at a Fourth of July picnic in 1861, when Olivia Rose Bellamead, a young Southern belle, was being arranged by her parents to marry Jackson Seth Montgomery, met a Yankee doctor named Andrew Robert Drake who changed the course of both of their lives. Andrew rode north that day, leaving his love behind, promising someday to come back. He, a surgeon in the Union army, sends her letters, tales from the battlefields, stories of young men, northern and southern alike, each with their uniforms bloody, not caring if they were blue or grey. Olivia holds dear each letter she receives, with her dreams of Andrew coming home, struggling with death and destruction all around, watching the South as it is left in ruins.
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She stands remembering the day she met Andrew, looking out over her beloved plantation, Bella Oak, knowing that was a time lost in the past and would never be again. She pulls out the unopened letter she has received, clinching it tight, her worst fear that her letter would arrive, one with different handwriting.

Southern Dreams series tales of
Bella Oak Plantation