Jack Marshall Maness
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In 1850s Kansas, two young families struggle with rattlesnakes, tornadoes, ice-storms, childbirth and morality in a war-torn land. A growing love between them, built over holiday ham and whiskey, is threatened as they are drawn into the territory's cycle of political violence. They must ultimately decide if they are friends or foes, and it isn't long before they all have blood on their hands. This novel asks how ordinary people cope with extraordinary...