The Gathering Storm (Book One of The River Rising Trilogy 1)

Book One in the "River Rising" Trilogy -- chronicles the adventures the fictitious Drummond family, along with their friends and loved ones, through the initial part of the larger "River Rising" story. Book One develops the relationships among the key characters and tracks the actions of the greedy -- and sometimes violent -- whites who are determined to displace the Cherokee Indians from their homelands in the 4-state area (Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina) . The storm is gathering as the whites become more greedy, more scheming and more treacherous. Book One ends on the threshold of the forced roundup and imprisonment in concentration camps of thousands of innocent people, along with forced march halfway across a frozen continent in the worst winter in memory, all of which is covered in Book Two, "The Road Where They Cried" -- a literal translation from the Cherokee of the more familiar English expression "The Trail of Tears". Read more Continue reading Read less