The Day the Falls Stood Still
By Cathy Marie Buchanan; Karen White (Read by)
(Playaway, Hardcover, 9781616377915)
Publication Date: January 2010
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Categories: Romance - Historical
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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the September 2009 Indie Next List“Set against the powerful backdrop of Niagara Falls in the years surrounding World War I, The Day the Falls Stood Still tells the story of a privileged young woman whose life comes apart at the seams, the man she loves, and the river that both unites and divides them. Buchanan's debut novel immediately keeps you in its grip until the final page.”
-- Jennifer Abbott, Lakewood Ranch Booksellers, Bradenton, FL
Description
1915. The dawn of the hydroelectric power era in Niagara Falls. Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath has led a sheltered existence as the youngest daughter of the director of the Niagara Power Company. After graduation day at her boarding school, she is impatient to return to her picturesque family home near Niagara Falls. But when she arrives, nothing is as she had left it. Her father has lost his job at the power company, her mother is reduced to taking in sewing from the society ladies she once entertained, and Isabel, her vivacious older sister, is a shadow of her former self. She has shut herself in her bedroom, barely eating---and harboring a secret.
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