Moonlight Melodies of Copper & Pine: A Novel of Early Michigan

There is a barrier that exists between the living and the dead. Between memory and thought, yesterday and tomorrow. A line that cannot be stepped over. Four lives, one island. Four lives, tangled and snarled together creating the future. It is 1843 and the isle of Mackinac still shines brightly from her perch on the straits of the wild north. An island of wilderness and native enchantment. A young woman with strange gifts of magic, yearns to leave the shores she knows too well. She wants nothing more than to capture the life that floats just beyond the waves. A young man who feels his body is a prison. His weaknesses making him worthless in a place where action and daring are prized. The English doctor, who cannot forget the sins of his past, or move beyond the blood that flares crimson on his hands and in his memories. And a lawyer, who has no home. He is part Huron, and part French, a stranger amongst all people. Despite his loneliness, he fights relentlessly for the rights of the natives. No matter the cost to himself or those whom he loves. Moonlight Melodies tells the story of murder and redemption, of passion and sacrifice. A story as wild as the northern moonlight shining through the darkness of pine boughs, with magic as old as the island itself.