Fireship Press brings you: BROKEN COUNTRY/BROKEN SOLDIER by Mary Anne Butler From Fighting Front to Home Front. A troubled Adam Springer, Heinrich Muellers grandson, returns from the Civil War to the family farm in Ohio. Bedeviled by the memory of battlefields red with the mingled blood of north and south, nightmares and melancholy plague him. One image Adam holds dearthe lovely young woman he watched descend the stairs of a grand Atlanta home before it gave into flames spread by the Yankee hoard. Rejecting the come hither glances of local farm girls, Adam seeks a woman of similar beauty and grace and finds her in eighteen-year old Martha. She leaves her elegant Marietta home to join Adam in the shabby house on the lonely farm where his mother, Lizzie, reigns as queen. The marriage is stormy, children arrive, children die, and Marthaher girlish essence transformed to steeltakes their sons and leaves to run a hotel. Was it possible for Adam to change? Could he win her back? Did he even want to? The fledgling Ohio pottery industry provides a subplot to this story of two lovers as they work through domestic mistreatment and family tragedy. Don't miss all three books in Mary Anne Butler's An American Trilogy * Journey to a Land Called Hope * The Wilderness Road * Broken CountryBroken Soldier BISAC Subject Headings: FIC014000 FICTION / Historical For the finest in nautical and historical, fiction and nonfiction, please visit us at www.FireshipPress.com Features: 942 pages in reader double-tap scalable text pinch zoom full screen images triple-tap inversion for low-light reading portrait & landscape reading, with orientation locking opens to your last read page easily find more Legends to read via the info page includes bookmarks add notes to any page notes are automatically bookmarked
