At the Fall Line: A Novel | signed (gertrude m books)

“Once started, this is a book that readers will not want to put down — and they will also want to read it a second time.” — Historical Novel Society | review

“He survived the war to save the nation, now he must survive its Reconstruction … and his own inner war…. An intriguing historical romance set in Reconstruction Virginia. Flawless revelation of that time and place.“ — Ron Andre, A Matter of Fancy | review

In 1869 Virginia, three women mourning a little girl turn for comfort to Louis, a granite quarry foreman and Union veteran. 

Louis falls in love with the child’s aunt, who is also his employer, but she is married, virtuous — unattainable. Seeking means to wed elsewhere, he brings a law suit against a cousin who ruined his father. The suit stirs up dead causes and deadly chicanery, while his relations with the mother and sister of the girl child grow dangerously intimate.

Rooted in the beloved homeland whose cause he fought against with all his heart, Louis yearns for a woman who cannot be his and for a life that war and time have forever undone.

Praise for Jean Huets’ With Walt Whitman Himself: In the Nineteenth Century, In America

A true Whitmanian rests—for the intellect as well as for the eyes… The book keeps opening up to new facets of Whitman, his work, and his era.” — Ed Folsom, editor of Walt Whitman Quarterly Review

An outstanding account of Whitman’s life and times. This tribute to a great American writer should be in every U.S. library.” — Compulsive Reader

Huets has made a book of marvels and I can’t put it down. — Steve Scafidi