by Loletta Clouse

Wilder is a deeply moving story of love and adversity. In 1932 the families of the small Cumberland Plateau mining town of Wilder, Tennessee, struggle for survival as the Fentress Coal and Coke Company reduces wages and refuses to bargain with the miners. Caught in the grips of the Great Depression, the company is in a fright for its survival.

As the threat of a mining strike hovers over the community, Lacey Conners must deal with conflicts of her own: the growing burden her family has placed on her, the pressure to marry the stable, hardworking John Trotter and her terrifying, yet captivating, attraction to the dangerous young rebel, Coy Lynn Wilson.

As conditions in Wilder are brought to a crisis when company-hired thugs murder striker leader Barney Graham, the community must face its worst fear, and Lacey, too, must come to grips with forces that compete for her loyalty.

ISBN: 0-9719417-1-8

Price: $12.95 plus and handling