The Sparrow's Wing: Maggie — Beatrice Smith Samples

A Novel of the Deep South… The year 1885 -- Deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia, Maggie McKinnon, a young widow, fights to lift herself from poverty -- the South's legacy of the Civil War. She opens The Sparrow, a small mountain inn. Feeling she finally has her life on track, she then finds herself betrothed to a Yankee lumberman…! Considering the past, has she strength to forgive…? Courage to trust…? Compounding her problems, Maggie takes beneath the roof of The Sparrow a small brother; an older sister; two freed slaves; an ex-mother-in-law; the pregnant, unwed daughter of a bitter, half-mad veteran of the War -- and from across the vast Atlantic, a most unpleasant distant cousin of her betrothed…. Striving to solve the riddles of her own heart -- and those of family and friends -- Maggie finds her life spiraling out of control…