Moonshine River

By Marie Wells Coutu

Description:

After her father’s sudden death, Naomi Ross is left with an impossible choice: let her ailing mother go without desperately needed treatment—or take over the illegal whiskey business she never wanted.
Then Cullen Downs comes home.
Naomi has loved the preacher’s son since childhood, but Cullen is no longer the young man who left Golden Pond. Disgraced by his own mistakes, he’s returned determined to reclaim his faith and fight the liquor trade that nearly ruined his life.
That puts him squarely against the woman he can’t seem to stop loving.
With Prohibition crumbling and danger closing in from moonshiners, a corrupt lawman, and Chicago gangsters, Naomi’s desperate choices threaten more than her freedom. They could cost her Cullen—and the future she never dared believe could be hers.
In the rugged hills of Depression-era Kentucky, two people on opposite sides of the law must discover whether love can survive betrayal, whether good intentions can justify wrong choices, and whether God’s grace is big enough to redeem them both.
Mild violence.

Book Takeaway:

Forgiveness, sacrifice, redemption. Love is more effective than judgment.

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Why the author wrote this book:

I've long been fascinated with the history of the people who lived Between the Rivers and were forced to move due to government projects. I wanted to tell stories that would honor the families who once lived there.