BRING DAYBREAK is the fifth and final novel in my historical series. It's set in the mid-1920s, as Charlotte Turner, now in her 90s, prepares to leave this world. We've followed Charlotte from the very beginning of the series, so saying goodbye to her in the final novel only seemed appropriate.
Her granddaughter Petey, whom we first encountered in LAND OF JOYS, is set to take the mantle of leadership in the community. She's smart, practical, and unexpectedly romantic -- in other words, she's a lot like Charlotte herself.
We think of the 1920s as the "Jazz Age," but it rural America, the Depression was well underway. Agricultural prices had collapsed after the First World War as global demand sagged (yes, even then exports were a big part of the agricultural market). The growing divide between rural and urban life has been a part of my interests since the beginning of the series, and it steps into the front here. Also significant was the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, which swept across America in the 1920s as a rebranded "100% American" organization, concealing its hate under a veneer of patriotism. Sound familiar?
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