A Dream Of Daring [Paperback]

thought-provoking BOOKLIST
suspenseful...engaging...relevant for all generations FOREWORD
an enticing blend of mystery and romance...much recommended reading MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

For readers of historical novels and thought-provoking fiction, heres a new mystery and romance with a wholly original plot, set just prior to the Civil War, from the author of two award-winning novels.

When a visionary inventor threatens the entrenched powers of the Old South, the result is murder.

Tom Edmunton, the science-minded son of a cotton planter, has designed a prototype tractor in antebellum Louisiana. He foresees a new age of mechanized farming that will empty the fields of men and supplant the Souths slave system. But the planters of his town dont like his big ideas about changing their world or the intensity with which hes pursuing them.

As Tom hears the call of the new age, he also feels the pull of two women. Rachel, a senators daughter, loves him, but will she break with her family to stand by his side when the town rebukes him? Solo is the unbridled grassland filly, the feisty mulatto slave who despises Tom, along with every other man from the race that binds her. Rachel is free, but is her spirit chained? Solo is chained, but is her spirit free?

Tensions between Tom and the planters peak, and the tractor is stolen. Then a shocking murder sets into motion inextricably linked events and revelations that will change life as they know it for Tom, Rachel, and Solo (BOOKLIST).

Set at a crossroads for the United States, with an old epoch tumbling and the modern age gaining ground, this novel portrays the power struggles and clashing visions for the future of the people caught in the tumult.

This is a haunting tale of the Old South, with its sweeping fields of whitl#