by Loletta Clouse

The Homesteads picks up the story where Wilder left off on the road leading away from the only home John and Lacey Trotter have ever known.

The year is 1934 and the country is caught in the grips of the Great Depression. Desperate and almost without hope, John and Lacey, along with hundreds of other displace families, are brought by a New Deal project to the Cumberland Homesteads to start a new life. Trouble soon develops as the independent mountain people accustomed to their own way chafe under the increasing control and ever changing rules of the government.

As John desperately tries to hold on to the only thing he feels he has to offer Lacey—a home of her own, Lacey struggles to hide a dark secret that haunts her. Suddenly, they must both confront the past as Coy Lynn Wilson roars back into their lives like a runaway train threatening to destroy everything in his path.

ISBN: 0-9719417-0-X

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