The Wind Harp

Plot

Fall, 1904 ... The Wind Harp ... the story of Maggie MacAuley home for a visit to the small coal town of her childhood, but with no intention of staying. her life is at Hull House in Chicago now. There's nothing to keep her in Skingle Creek ... Nothing that is, but her father, seriously injured in a mining accident yet determined to hold on to his job and keep his family from ruin. Nothing but her mother, desperate to stop her husband from destroying himself in the coal mine that nearly took his life once before. Nothing but her younger brother, torn between his father's determination to keep him out of the mine and his own resolve to help his parents. Nothing but a sister who also returns home, bringing with her a dark, potentially devastating secret. And nothing but the unexpected discovery that a man who was once the hero of Maggie's childhood now seems destined to become something more.