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A Cherokee family takes in a remarkable foster child on the eve of the Cherokee National Holiday and anniversary of a loved one’s death. By the National Book Award-winning author of Where the Dead Sit Talking.

"Janet Dailey creates a new dynasty - the Stuart and Gordon families - telling their story in a grand, sweeping novel colored by history and emotions. In this breathtaking work set against the explosive backdrop of the Civil War, a part-Cherokee man and a Union officer's daughter find themselves drawn together by a desire as wild as the hot summer wind ... and torn apart by a heritage of passion, feuds, and unbending pride."--BOOK JACKET.

Strangers digging in the mountains, and the disappearance of Mandie's uncle and a Cherokee boy lead Mandie to a new mystery.

"From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line, an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center"--

It was no work for a woman. That's what they told Mary Breydon when she came to manage a rundown stagecoach station on the Cherokee Trail. But Mary had no choice. Her fine Virginia home burned to ashes in the Civil War and her husband was brutally shot down on the way to Colorado. She needed to make a new beginning for herself and her young daughter on the raw frontier. Isolated in an untamed land, their life at the station was achingly hard and they...

Bluford Steele, always an outsider because of his Cherokee blood and white man's education, finds his calling as an actor, but he is called to perform a more dangerous role when the acting troupe he is traveling with comes under fire in the lawless town of West Riddle.

"A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another...

"When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site of a local cemetery's expansion, Barry Clayton, part-time deputy and full-time undertaker, finds his dual occupations collide. Then, during the interment of the wife of one of Gainesboro's most prominent citizens, Cherokee activist Jimmy Panther leads a protest. Words and fists fly. When Panther turns up executed on the grave of the deceased woman, Barry is forced to confront her family as the...