Job's Children

In the years following the American Civil War, the land west of the Mississippi experienced a rising tide of humanity ruthlessly bent on subjugation. It was protected by a disenfranchised soldiery that waged strange and primitive warfare in a psychologically terrifying landscape. This is the setting for the gothic western JOB'S CHILDREN. It is the story of sisters, Hope and Faith Whitcomb, whose insular lives are irrevocably changed by the arrival of an Army corporal, Lute Reilly, who seeks refuge with them after his patrol is wiped out by Indians. It is not sanctuary he finds, however, since the Whitcomb sisters have a terrible secret they have vowed to keep, one that imprisons them in their crumbling brick house, set out in the middle of the Kansas prairie "like a rock in a sailor's dream." This description may be from another edition of this product.