ASIN: B00C0YT4S8
Publisher: R K Buhman
Pages: 381
Discharged from the Marines, Jerry Colin returns home to Clarksdale County Iowa, a small, rural farming community. After buying the farm he has desired since early adolescence and marrying his high school sweetheart, he settles into the quiet, slow-paced country lifestyle. Jerry’s intensions are to farm the land and raise his children in the same rural atmosphere as his father and grandfather. Having tasted life in the fast lane, his greatest desire is the simplest of all, to provide for his family while taking the time to sit on the porch and rock in a chair as he watches the world rush past. Brutal reality awaits him when the Vanlair, a small Russian religious clan, migrates to America, purchases land bordering Jerry’s farm and builds a complex for their followers. The Vanlair are intent on building a safe environment for their community by driving the farmers from their land and ...
