BOOKS: The Treasures of a Carolina Summer season: W. Scott Jones | Information

W. Scott Jones is a author with South Georgia roots.

The South Carolina-based creator was born in Alapaha.

His first novel, “A Storm within the Carolinas,” handled the South through the twin period of integration of faculties and the Vietnam Struggle.

His second novel, “The Treasures of a Carolina Summer season,” is one other Southern story. It’s set a number of years later on the finish of the Nineteen Seventies however reaches again additional into the previous.

Roger, a 17-year-old highschool athlete, discovers a number of household secrets and techniques upon discovering an ancestor’s journal in his grandmother’s home.

In the meantime, Roger juggles the challenges and alternatives his sports activities profession brings whereas pursuing a lady throughout a visit to Myrtle Seashore.

“Treasures” is full of the identical, particularly for readers who got here of age within the late Nineteen Seventies or early Nineteen Eighties. Jones writes a novel however creates a time machine that can pull readers who keep in mind the occasions again to the previous.