Kathleen Shoop
ASIN: B007TWBFL0
Publisher: (April 13, 2012)
Pages: 409
*** Eric Hoffer Award Finalist*** ***Independent Publisher Awards: Silver, Best Regional Fiction–Mid-Atlantic*** ***National Indie Excellence Awards: WINNER-- Literary Fiction*** Historic, environmental drama wrapped in a love story... It's 1948 in the steel town of Donora, Pennsylvania, site of the infamous “killing smog.” Public health nurse, Rose Pavlesic, has risen above her orphaned upbringing and created a life that reflects everything she missed as a child. She’s even managed to keep her painful secrets hidden from her doting husband, loving children, and large extended family. When a stagnant weather pattern traps poisonous mill gasses in the valley, neighbors grow sicker and Rose’s nursing obligations thrust her into conflict she never could have fathomed. Consequences from her past collide with her present life, making her once clear decisions as gray as the suffocating smog. ...