Fields of Dust Volume I

by Christine Phillips, Christine Bailey (Editor), Sammy Phillips (Editor)

Born to Southern sharecroppers during the Great Depression, Honnie Jo Inman leads a life of struggle. She works in the scorching fields, but chafes under this life, yearning to satisfy her thirst for beauty. She pines for the handsome, indecisive, senator's son, who is in the thrall of the lovely but vicious Bella, daughter of their powerful, harsh landlord. Tormented by feelings of unworthiness, Honnie Jo begins to realize her potential when she is revealed to be a piano prodigy. Her new teacher opens her mind to the larger world. When a man she trusts betrays her and threatens to trample all she has worked for, she gathers her courage as she sets out to ruin her enemy. Honnie Jo begins a deadly game where success means an escape for her family from poverty once and for all. Filled with bitterness and concealing a painful secret, Honnie Jo tries to keep her burden from destroying her, realizing that both victory and failure have a price. She will have to decide whether justice should ever give way to mercy.

635 pages, Paperback

Published October 2, 2019