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Lane's prose is faultless; the pacing, superb: the dialogue rings true. If you enjoy fiction that brings complicated historical struggles to life, you'll love this novel. ---Donna Meredith, Southern Literary Review

In this engaging first novel by acclaimed nature writer John Lane, self-proclaimed company man Ben Crocker tells his story, as the overworked, underpaid flunky of a 1930's textile mogul in the Carolina Blue Ridge foothills. The unlovable boss man and his big cruiser have swamped a small boat on the company lake and drowned three people. Among the dead are the husband and child of gorgeous Novie Moreland, dream girl of half the countryside. The young Widow Moreland is nobody's fool, but nobody's paragon either, as smitten Ben must learn. Lane's cautionary tale of land, labor, love, and loyalty is as pertinent today as it was in its Depression era of mill uprisings and shootings. --Dot Jackson, author of Refuge

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John Lane is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including My Paddle to the Sea; Begin with Rock, End with Water; and most recently Abandoned Quarry: New and Selected Poems, winner of the 2012 Southeastern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Award for Poetry. A professor of English and director of the Goodall Environmental Studies Center at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA Lane is a 2014 inductee into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. Wiley Cash is the New York Times best-selling author of A Land More Kind than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy. He is a native of Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.

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