Nate Webber is one of the many to join the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to help provide for his family, but it means leaving everything he knows behind in Brooklyn for the untamed West. Roosevelt’s New Deal offers a glimmer of hope for unemployed young men. But just as in the past, Kieran's needs clash with government regulations.Barnett transports readers back to the height of the Great Depression in 1933 when President Franklin D. Park Historian Zach Jensen may be the key to locating both the answers and a precious family heirloom. Eighty-five years later, Kieran heads back to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to find answers to her great-grandmother's mysterious death and bring peace to Granny Mac before it's too late. Then the discovery of an illegal still in the woods near her cabin leads to a violent clash between sides that could destroy them all. But their friendship broadens a rift between her and the other mountain folk who are suspicious of any government connections.
Ornithologist Benton Fuller arrives to conduct a bird survey for the park and the two form a tenuous bond. When a compromise offers her and her disabled sister the opportunity to stay for her lifetime, it seems too good to be true. But Rosie vows the only way they'll get her land is if they haul her out in a pine box. In 1931, Rosie McCauley's Smoky Mountains home is threatened by the Tennessee Great Smokies Park Commission as they create a new national park. Worse, Granny Mac is being tormented by flashbacks of her mother's death and the loss of their home. Uncovering a long-lost family story is the only way to bring her grandmother peace Kieran Lucas's grandmother is slipping into dementia, and, when her memory is gone, Kieran's last tie to the family she barely knows will be lost forever.
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