Rain on Red Clay
by Gloria Lewis
Category: Fiction

In northeastern Arkansas against a backdrop of WWI, Lon Peterson, a hill farmer, and his wife, Ginger, put their family at risk when they embark upon a daring horseback journey across Arkansas and Oklahoma in search of Jesse, the two-year-old son of Lon's sister, Claire, who is left pregnant and emotionally devastated when her husband, Matt, a cowboy from Oklahoma, makes off with Jesse. Coloring the quest are a Negro psychic, a sympathetic sheriff, death, disease, misplaced righteousness, the ravages of prejudice, the loss of family innocence and the lesson that a child's happiness is more important than justice for the heart. Filled with stimulating characters who express strong family values, action and suspense, Rain on Red Clay is suitable for a general reading audience.