Based on the memory of a young woman living in the Ozarks in the late 1800s, who falls in love with a man riding the caboose on the train that passes near her home each day.
The train whistle sounded again, echoing over the hills like a lament. Trembling fingers touched the faded blue ribbon tied in her white hair. Carefully, she picked her way down the lane to stand in the new road that ran alongside the Frisco line. . . One day soon her lost prince of faded memories would be on that train. He'd lean over the rail of the caboose, throw her a kiss and shout with joy. . . That girl she'd been so long ago remained as fresh in her mind as if she existed at this very moment.
A novel about a family during World War II, set on the homefront in Springield, Mass., and in the South Pacific. The book focuses on four characters and how their lives were affected and changed during the war years.
Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, Catherine Merit strives to fit into a world filled with prejudice, hatred and violence where she is forced to kill a man in order to save herself. Third book of the Indignities Series.
