Mj Pettengill
Author
Series
Etched in granite volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Revised edition.
Description
"The year is 1872. The Civil War has ended, leaving behind a nation torn and economically depressed. ETCHED IN GRANITE is a harrowing account of life and death on a rural New England Poor Farm -- a tragic, yet triumphant novel that tells a story of courage, survival, and secrets surrounding lost love. The story is narrated by the three principal characters: Abigail, a young woman facing unimaginable hardship when agonizing circumstances and betrayal...
Author
Series
Etched in granite volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"1872. Alone and determined, 17-year-old Sarah Hodgdon boards a train, trading farm life in New Hampshire for the textile mills of Fall River. Woefully disillusioned, she finds herself trapped in a brutal factory and living in a filthy tenement. She is tormented when she learns the fate of her family. About to drown in a sea of spindles, she meets lamplighter, August Wood, who illuminates the gap between the affluent and the undesirables that dwell...