Render Unto the Valley

Karen Godwell isn't as much ashamed of her mountain heritage as of what she had to do to preserve it. She reinvents herself at college and doesn't look back till her clan's historic farm is threatened. This gutsy New York Metropolitan Museum curator returns to the mountains, only to come face to face with who she was and what she did. Descendants of the early settlers still have a grip on the farmlands in the folds of the Blue Ridge Mountains, but the ground is shifting beneath their feet. ...