Mary Noailles Murfree, writing as Charles Egbert Craddock, sets this 1887 novel among the cabins and ridges of the Tennessee mountains. The thoughtful, independent Alethea Sayles, a mountain girl of strong conscience, stands at the centre of a story of rivalry, suspicion and the hard justice of a remote community.
A rich work of local colour from one of the best-known writers of Appalachian life. Download the free EPUB.