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Bitterroot
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Bitterroot is an exciting debut novel, told with powerful authenticity and intriguing plot twists. It is 1986 as we enter a world in which the simmering, decades-old sparring between the Neilsen and Harper families is about to explode – a world in which the law is at best a disinterested player and nature provides a backdrop of astonishing beauty set against the harsh winter of Montana’s remote Rocky Mountain Front.
Marge Neilsen’s imminent death has lured her adult children from their comfortable lives in Boston to rural Montana. But Joseph, her husband and a toughened wheat farmer, has barely begun to mourn his loss when he faces two daunting Marge’s demand that he reconcile with his long estranged son and the discovery that his daughter has disappeared en route to her mother’s deathbed.
Will Harper, a ruthless cattle rancher whose disdain for his wife and sons contrasts sharply with the reverence he holds for his elderly mother, has loved Marge since they were children. That love, in combination with his religious fervor and hatred for Joseph, will lead him to plan a revenge attack that he believes will rightfully destroy the entire Nielsen family.
The Neilsens and Harpers have fought since Joseph and Marge became engaged –over love, money, respect, paternity and land. Now, a series of intricately intertwined, explosive secrets will be revealed and will unravel the lives and rock the foundations of these two families.
Bitterroot leads the reader through a thrilling odyssey that explores the boundaries of regret and reconciliation. It delineates a landscape both isolated and beautiful, a landscape much like our own, in which confronting our deepest regrets and discovering and embracing our truest passions are the keys to vanquishing loneliness and unlocking the beauty about us.
Bitterroot is an exciting debut novel, told with powerful authenticity and intriguing plot twists. It is 1986 as we enter a world in which the simmering, decades-old sparring between the Neilsen and Harper families is about to explode – a world in which the law is at best a disinterested player and nature provides a backdrop of astonishing beauty set against the harsh winter of Montana’s remote Rocky Mountain Front.
Marge Neilsen’s imminent death has lured her adult children from their comfortable lives in Boston to rural Montana. But Joseph, her husband and a toughened wheat farmer, has barely begun to mourn his loss when he faces two daunting Marge’s demand that he reconcile with his long estranged son and the discovery that his daughter has disappeared en route to her mother’s deathbed.
Will Harper, a ruthless cattle rancher whose disdain for his wife and sons contrasts sharply with the reverence he holds for his elderly mother, has loved Marge since they were children. That love, in combination with his religious fervor and hatred for Joseph, will lead him to plan a revenge attack that he believes will rightfully destroy the entire Nielsen family.
The Neilsens and Harpers have fought since Joseph and Marge became engaged –over love, money, respect, paternity and land. Now, a series of intricately intertwined, explosive secrets will be revealed and will unravel the lives and rock the foundations of these two families.
Bitterroot leads the reader through a thrilling odyssey that explores the boundaries of regret and reconciliation. It delineates a landscape both isolated and beautiful, a landscape much like our own, in which confronting our deepest regrets and discovering and embracing our truest passions are the keys to vanquishing loneliness and unlocking the beauty about us.
304 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 12, 2012
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