When Mae Jameison's husband is killed by lightning, she is left to keep their South Carolina cotton farm producing, raise her small child, and fight the Great Depression that is hammering the nation.
Losing her husband's strength and passion, Mae feels he's irreplaceable. But the local cotton mill owner, Judson Paine, wants Mae for his wife. Known for cheating farmers out of rightful payment for their crops, he thinks to buy her love by installing electricity to her farm.
A stranger comes to town. Locke Fielding, a former business man from New York, has gone from riches to rags during the stock market crash of 1929. He is now a hobo riding the rails. Both his sister and business partner die the day of the crash and he is under suspicion. His first meeting with Mae is when she shoots him for stealing her chicken.
Mae heals Locke and puts him to work. They slowly fall in love. When Mae's money is stolen from her secret place there is only one suspect and Locke is jailed. Mae fails the man she loves when she believes he might be guilty.
Heartbroken, penniless, what will Mae do next?
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Losing her husband's strength and passion, Mae feels he's irreplaceable. But the local cotton mill owner, Judson Paine, wants Mae for his wife. Known for cheating farmers out of rightful payment for their crops, he thinks to buy her love by installing electricity to her farm.
A stranger comes to town. Locke Fielding, a former business man from New York, has gone from riches to rags during the stock market crash of 1929. He is now a hobo riding the rails. Both his sister and business partner die the day of the crash and he is under suspicion. His first meeting with Mae is when she shoots him for stealing her chicken.
Mae heals Locke and puts him to work. They slowly fall in love. When Mae's money is stolen from her secret place there is only one suspect and Locke is jailed. Mae fails the man she loves when she believes he might be guilty.
Heartbroken, penniless, what will Mae do next?
Five o'clock Whistle
When Mae Jameison's husband is killed by lightning, she is left to keep their South Carolina cotton farm producing, raise her small child, and fight the Great Depression that is hammering the nation.
Losing her husband's strength and passion, Mae feels he's irreplaceable. But the local cotton mill owner, Judson Paine, wants Mae for his wife. Known for cheating farmers out of rightful payment for their crops, he thinks to buy her love by installing electricity to her farm.
A stranger comes to town. Locke Fielding, a former business man from New York, has gone from riches to rags during the stock market crash of 1929. He is now a hobo riding the rails. Both his sister and business partner die the day of the crash and he is under suspicion. His first meeting with Mae is when she shoots him for stealing her chicken.
Mae heals Locke and puts him to work. They slowly fall in love. When Mae's money is stolen from her secret place there is only one suspect and Locke is jailed. Mae fails the man she loves when she believes he might be guilty.
Heartbroken, penniless, what will Mae do next?
Losing her husband's strength and passion, Mae feels he's irreplaceable. But the local cotton mill owner, Judson Paine, wants Mae for his wife. Known for cheating farmers out of rightful payment for their crops, he thinks to buy her love by installing electricity to her farm.
A stranger comes to town. Locke Fielding, a former business man from New York, has gone from riches to rags during the stock market crash of 1929. He is now a hobo riding the rails. Both his sister and business partner die the day of the crash and he is under suspicion. His first meeting with Mae is when she shoots him for stealing her chicken.
Mae heals Locke and puts him to work. They slowly fall in love. When Mae's money is stolen from her secret place there is only one suspect and Locke is jailed. Mae fails the man she loves when she believes he might be guilty.
Heartbroken, penniless, what will Mae do next?
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940158020667 |
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| Publisher: | Mercer Addison |
| Publication date: | 01/11/2016 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 375 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
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