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Bess #2
Bess II: Into the Wind
As a single 21-year-old,Bess Parker ventured forth alone, which was virtually unheard of in 1908, intofar southwestern North Dakota to establish a homestead, where she became asuccessful rancher. Her journey demonstrated her strength and steely will as itwas filled with challenges and heartache. After kicking her drunk and abusivehusband to the curb in 1916, Bess found herself raising four small childrenalone in a sod house on the pioneer prairie.
Bess the Wind continues Bess' story throughthe First World War, the Spanish Flu epidemic and into the 1920s as she worksto keep her children and her ranch thriving in dangerous times. She meets Anna,a schoolteacher who is also lesbian, and given the religious and intolerantnature of the community, Bess and Anna must manage their relationship secretlyand discreetly while raising the children--or face the consequences of theirforbidden love.
BessII is the second in a series of four historical novels by Charles Cranston Jett basedon this amazing real-life character.
Bess the Wind continues Bess' story throughthe First World War, the Spanish Flu epidemic and into the 1920s as she worksto keep her children and her ranch thriving in dangerous times. She meets Anna,a schoolteacher who is also lesbian, and given the religious and intolerantnature of the community, Bess and Anna must manage their relationship secretlyand discreetly while raising the children--or face the consequences of theirforbidden love.
BessII is the second in a series of four historical novels by Charles Cranston Jett basedon this amazing real-life character.
- GenresLGBT
344 pages, Paperback
Published June 16, 2018
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