In this sequel to Hazel Creek from award-winning author Walt Larimore, a loving rural family struggles to survive tragedy and cope with the invasion of modern ways in the 1920s.
THIS CAPTIVATING STORY takes place in the Sugar Fork Valley of the Great Smoky Mountains wilderness during 1925–1926. Nate Randolph and his five unique daughters wrestle to survive after the death of Callie (his wife and their mother) as well as to maintain their farm, forests, family, and faith against an evil lumber company manager seeking to clear-cut their virgin woodland.
A cast of delightful characters, including gypsy siblings, Cherokee Indians, a granny midwife, a world-famous writer, and even a flesh-and-blood Haint, join our heroine, sixteen-year-old Abbie Randolph, in her life-and-death struggle. Abbie falls in love for the first time, helps run the farm, and mothers her independent sisters while battling to preserve her faith when senseless murders threaten to destroy her family and way of life.
Will the Randolph family survive intact? Will the farm be saved? Only a miracle could make it happen.
With the march of the industrial age, especially industrial lumbering, the roaring twenties, Prohibition, the increasing momentum for a national park, and the onslaught of a modern world, trains, and radio communication, the traditional life and ways of our Southern Highlanders were about to change forever.
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Summary
Author Walt Larimore writes a beautiful story of life in the Great Smoky Mountains wilderness amongst the Highland peoples. He captures the simplicity and beauty of their lives amid what the world would see as poverty and \"backwardness\". However, a closer look shows the reader that these folk understand more about the true meaning of life and love than those who see themselves as sophisticated, cultured and intellectual. It was a hard life. Many were impoverished. Yet they took care of \"their own\". Abbie Randolph is a courageous heroine you will love from the minute you meet her on page one at the ripe old age of one hundred! Immerse yourself in the Great Smoky Mountain culture and travel back in time to the 1 920s for a story that is rich in every way! If you enjoy this story, then you should read Mr. Larimore's other novels set in the very same area.
Voilence : Violence but not graphic
Drug & Alcohol: Set during the time of the Prohibition. Many moonshiners in this area. Talk of imbibing \"medical moonshine\".