By LoLetta Clouse

Mallie Hamilton returns to her beloved Smoky Mountains, after six-years, to teach school at Elkmont. The year is 1912 and the Little River Lumber Company and the logging industry have changed the face of the quiet, rural life that has been a part of the mountains for generations. angry with her pa who has sold the family farm to become a logger and worried about her brother Cole who has disappeared into the mountains after a logging accident, Mallie struggles to find her own way.

Mallie, guarding her independence, has vowed never to fall in love but she soon finds herself pursued by two men, the rich and powerful industrialist, Pierce Gerard, an inverstor in the Little River Lumber Company and the charming young botanist, Will Stenson.

Against the backdrop of the Smoky Mountains, mallie must find a way to forgive, to open her heart and to idscover her place on earth.

ISBN: 0-9719417-2-6

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