The Early Years

by Lyn Miller Lacoursiere

The Early Years is a story of sweetness and conflict, decisions and departures that consume the young lives of Lindy Lewis and Reed Conners. You will see how her life on the farm molded her into the person she is, and will become over those next years. From her grass roots herding cattle alone, far from home, to her learning how to twirl the wooden branch she used to keep the herd under control. And how years later, she uses that branch, now called a baton and leads her high school band as a drum majorette. You will feel her loneliness when she leaves home and her large family at thirteen years of age and works her way through high school, earning her way cooking, cleaning and caring for children in return for her room and board. Finally she realizes her dream, and goes off to Minneapolis to college for a degree in business. You will meet young Reed Conners who has come to study law. From a northern town in Minnesota called Williston and an affluent upbringing, their story begins when Reed meets Lindy in their last year of college, working together on campus at a diner called Gina's. You will learn of his struggles to take care of his responsibilities after loosing the very foundation of his life, and their bittersweet romance and promises, and then their choices to pursue their careers.Throughout the Lindy Lewis series the love interest between Lindy and Reed will soar and then plummet, but never die.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978076215
• ISBN13: 9781978076211
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.9" x 0.9" x 4.5"