Harvest of Stone

By Steven Turk

Chicago-1889. Forced to witness his mother's agonizing death while quarantined in a one room tenement during a cholera epidemic, Gunnar Nilsson's world is turned upside-down. The experience begins his odyssey from a hardscrabble life in Chicago's notorious Swede Town slum to one of near isolation on a rundown farm in the bucolic hills of Black Earth, Wisconsin where he is indentured to a reclusive, emotionally scarred, civil war veteran, Tobias Wren, and his nearly blind wife, Emily. As their lives interweave, Gunn learns the secret that shrouds Emily in sadness - the same secret that goads Tobias to rage against God. In an emotional confrontation, they come together, return to the community and begin to thrive as a family when Gunn falls in love with Hattie Brown, the beautiful daughter of an abusive, mean-spirited horse breeder who threatens to kill him to keep his own secret.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500903388
• ISBN13: 9781500903381
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"