Between the Rivers

Between the Rivers is historical fiction, set in coastal North Carolina between the Cape Fear, the Black and the Northeast Cape Fear Rivers in the early twentieth century. It is a place where the hardships of rural life challenge daily existence, where women like Maggie Lorena Ryan struggle to find a more satisfying life than that of bearing multiple children to work the land.

The story opens in 1926 on the scene of a house fire in Bladen County. Tate and Maggie Lorena Ryan watch helplessly...