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The Day The Falls Stood Still, September 2009
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The Day The Falls Stood Still
Cathy Marie Buchanan

Voice
September 2009
On Sale: August 25, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 1401340970
EAN: 9781401340971
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction Historical

Steeped in the intriguing history of Niagara Falls, this epic love story is as rich, spellbinding, and majestic as the falls themselves.

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.

The night of her return, Bess meets Tom Cole by chance on a trolley platform. She finds herself inexplicably drawn to him--against her family's strong objections. He is not from their world. Rough-hewn and fearless, he lives off what the river provides and has an uncanny ability to predict the whims of the falls. His daring river rescues render him a local hero and cast him as a threat to the power companies that seek to harness the power of the falls for themselves. As their lives become more fully entwined, Bess is forced to make a painful choice between what she wants and what is best for her family and her future.

Set against the tumultuous backdrop of Niagara Falls, at a time when daredevils shot the river rapids in barrels and great industrial fortunes were made and lost as quickly as lives disappeared, The Day the Falls Stood Still is an intoxicating debut novel.

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5 comments posted.

Re: The Day The Falls Stood Still

Sounds like my kind of novel! I'll have to check it out. Thank you, Cathy Marie Buchanan.
(Mary Anne Landers 7:05pm September 20, 2009)

Sounds like a great story! I would love to read it. Thanks.
(Joyce Kernan 2:48pm October 1, 2009)

The answer is Bess Heath.
I can't wait to read this book.

Thanks
(Tracey Dent 3:56pm October 11, 2009)

I grew up in Central NY and we visited NF a few times growing up and now I'm closer there in Western NY. I so love feeling the sprinkles coming from the falls as I stand there and watch them. Too its so neat to see in the winter as well. Its been a while since I've gone! I remember reading some stories about those going down in a barrel (and those attempting but being caught before hand) on the news here. I'm for sure going to look up some now since I'm fastinated by it! I'd love to be in the contest to read this! The answer is Bess Heath!
(Cathie Morton 8:00pm October 30, 2009)

Beth Heath is the main character.
(Lynne Degen 4:25pm October 31, 2009)