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Also by Breena Clarke:

Angels Make Their Hope Here, July 2014
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Angels Make Their Hope Here, July 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Stand the Storm, August 2008
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ANGELS MAKE THEIR HOPE HERE
By: Breena Clarke

Little, Brown & Company
July 2014
On Sale: July 8, 2014
Featuring: Duncan Smoot; Dossie Bird; Hattie Smoot
ISBN: 0316254002
EAN: 9780316254007
Kindle: B00ECE9NAS
Hardcover / e-Book
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Hardcover (July 2014)

Mystery | Historical | Fiction

Russell's Knob is not paradise. But already in 1849 this New Jersey highlands settlement is home to a diverse population of blacks, whites, and reds who have intermarried and lived in relative harmony for generations. It is a haven for Dossie Bird, who has escaped north along the Underground Railroad and now feels the embrace of the Smoot family.

Duncan Smoot presides as accidental patriarch, protector of his enterprising sister, Hattie, and his two rambunctious nephews. As Dossie busies herself with cleaning, cooking, and tending the chickens at Duncan's homestead, she wonders: Could this man, her rescuer—so godlike in her eyes, so much older than she—expect her to become his helpmeet?. Tentatively, Dossie begins to put down roots—until a shocking act of violence propels her away from Russell's Knob and eventually into the mayhem of New York City's mean streets.

With the same storytelling brio that distinguished the acclaimed novels River, Cross My Heart and Stand the Storm, Breena Clarke weaves a richly dramatic story of interracial harmony in the Civil War era—and of one woman's triumph in the crucible of history.