Then there's the cage around her mother and aunt's graves which lie outside the cemetery, but no one willing to explain why. The small farming town of Catawissa holds a new future including a fiancé she's exchanged a few letters with but never met, and a father who is mostly a stranger to her. Sent away to live with relatives after her mother's death, 17 year old Verity Boone returns to her birth home after a 14 year absence. Review 2: I love a good historic novel.one with history, romance, mystery and a bit of danger.

The story is placed in 1867, so teachers could use the book as a free reading book in connection with Civil War study. The book is great middle school and high school reading, but probably more for girls. She makes some dangerous discoveries that put her life in peril, but help her to understand her heart. more ds her on a quest to understand just why that would be so. In this riveting fantasy adventure, thirteen-year-old Jax Aubrey discovers a secret eighth day with roots tracing back to Arthurian legend. Salernis time-bending series that combines exciting magic and pulse-pounding suspense.

Her discovery that her mother and her aunt’s grave are inside cages and located in unhallowed ground outside the cemetery lea. Fans of Percy Jackson will devour this first book in Dianne K. Things are further complicated by the fact that the young doctor in town is openly attracted to her. She wonders if Nathan just wanted to marry her because of his interest in her father’s farm. Her father seems distant and things don’t go as well with Nate as she would like. Things are awkward at first with Nate and her father. She will also be reunited with her father, who sent her away after her mother died. Although she knew him as a child, which she doesn’t remember, this will be the first time she has seen him face-to- face since that time. Review 1: Verity Boone returns to Catawissa, Pennsylvania, her birthplace, to marry Nathan McClure.

We Hear the Dead by Dianne K. Salerni