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By Carolyn Rawls Booth
the Between the Rivers trilogy

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BETWEEN THE RIVERS, BOOK 1

Between the Rivers

Carolyn Rawls Booth
With illustrations by K. A. McKendry
ISBN 978-1928556299, trade paperback $13.95 USD

In the fertile farm and swampland between the Cape Fear, the Black and the Northeast Cape Fear Rivers in the early twentieth century, Maggie Lorena Ryan struggles to find a more satisfying life than that of bearing multiple children to work the soil.

Maggie has always longed for a college education—and romantic love—noble goals in which her Aunt Mag has encouraged her. Both dreams are put on hold after a tragic event in her young life, however, and Maggie journeys by train and buggy to rural Onslow County to teach school in a one-room schoolhouse. Though Maggie Lorena finds a home and a husband in the Carolina backwoods, she wants more.

Watching helplessly with her young family as everything they own except Aun Mag's beloved wooden trunk goes up in smoke, Maggie Lorena risks surrendering all hope to madness and melancholy as well. Will she and Tate Ryan survive the loss?

Based on true-life experiences of the author's Carolina forebears, Between the Rivers paints an engaging and authentic portrait of the manners, attitudes, and history of an era not so long forgotten in the Tar Heel State.

"The fertile landscape is a living part of this story and the historical details are rendered with remarkable credibility." —Georgann Eubanks, Carboro, North Carolina

"... a strong plot propels Between the Rivers upstream. Although the novel is not explicitly religious, I suspect that readers who liked Katherine Marshall's Christy will find it appealing." —Ben Steelman, Wilmington Star-News

"Far from being a 'bodice-ripper' or a dry history text, Booth tells a solid tale of a young woman's hopes and dreams, lost loves and changing times." —Jefferson Weaver, Bladen Journal

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