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The Breadline Promise: A Novel of Faith and Mercy in the Carolina Lowcountry
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 7 2026
Pages: 650
Weight: 1.89
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the fragile years after the Civil War, survival in the Carolina Lowcountry depends on what can be measured, controlled, and accounted for.
Eulalie Crowder knows this better than most. Widowed and determined to keep her late husband's bakehouse alive, she runs her business with discipline and precision. Flour is counted. Coins are recorded. Nothing is wasted-not even mercy. When hunger begins to spread through Brackenshore Landing, Eulalie helps quietly, leaving bread where it can be found without forcing anyone to beg or be seen.
But invisible mercy is hard to protect in a town built on watchful eyes and unspoken rules.
As repairs fail, livelihoods falter, and need becomes harder to hide, Eulalie's careful balance begins to crack. When her private acts of compassion are exposed, she finds herself at odds with the very structures meant to preserve order and respectability. Faith, once a steady foundation, becomes something tested-not by doubt, but by cost.
Into this fragile world comes Tavian Rourke, a skilled laborer with a complicated past and no place in the town's hierarchy. As their paths cross, Eulalie must confront what faith requires when control slips away, and whether mercy can remain quiet once it is seen.
The Breadline Promise is a measured, deeply human historical novel about hunger and dignity, labor and belief, and the courage it takes to choose mercy when it carries a price. Set against the salt air and shifting loyalties of the postwar Carolina Lowcountry, it is a story of faith that does not shout-but holds.
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