Bøger af Lindy Keane Carter

The year is 1900 and young mother Annaliese Stregal is forced by her husband, John, to leave their comfortable life in Louisville, Kentucky to live in a lumber camp in the north Georgia mountains where he has launched a timber business with his brother. Joining her there with even more outrage and dismay is the prickly sister-in-law she loathes, Lucenia, who is full of opinions about every women's issue of the day - social justice for the oppressed, equal rights, birth control, the morality of female sexual pleasure - and possessing not one domestic skill. To protect their children and battle the mountain enemies they have in common, the women strike a fragile truce, but a new national controversy is gaining steam: the annihilation of America's forests, and this one Annaliese cannot ignore. The brothers pick up their pace in scraping their fortune off the pristine hillsides just as John begins to unravel, putting the families' future in jeopardy. Unlikely help comes from a pair of Cherokee Indian brothers, but it is Annaliese who must act decisively to save John from the grisly reckoning he foresaw all along and save the mountains from him.

In 1903, a young woman dares to challenge the loggers on every slope of Georgia's forested mountains. Using America's first sustainable forestry principles promoted by the German forester at George Vanderbilt's Biltmore estate, she pushes forward this controversial approach to stop the timber holocaust sweeping through Appalachia. Meanwhile, she must save the life of her baby who was born with a dangerous birth defect and protect her son from a desperate logger. Rising to meet all challenges, Annaliese discovers new strengths that enable her to carve out a new path in male-dominated industry.

In 1849, twin sisters fleeing Ireland's famine arrive at New York's seaport. Only one -- Nora-is allowed to get on the boat to South Carolina to fulfill her work contract. On her master's vast rice plantation, an enslaved worker -- Pearl -- befriends her. After one of them commits a crime, the girls flee to Charleston, a dangerous place for runaways. Nora frantically seeks to get back to her twin and Pearl tries to find her mother before heading north. Meanwhile, an old enemy's illegal transatlantic scheme is about to derail the girls' plans.