
On a night in April, 1828, Tad Hopkins, traveling on a river steamboat to join his father in New Orleans, was robbed and thrown overboard by a famous outlaw. He managed to swim to a flatboat moored to the bank and spent the rest of the night there. When he woke in the morning...



A restless wind stirs the fields, and the hush of dusk settles over the countryside-a moment suspended between boyhood and the responsibilities that lie ahead. Set against the sweeping backdrop of rural America in the early twentieth century, this evocative novel traces the journey...