Carolina Courage — Dana Fuller Ross

A pioneering spirit marked the hardy mountaineers of North Carolina, but an ugly violence ravaged this land of laurels and hills. A dread disease was killing rich and poor alike, and cruel blame fell on the proud Cherokee, the last great Indian tribe of America's East. Now, in this crossfire of hatred and fear, only one brave family would dare to stand up for justice: THE HOLTS.

1891. The train rumbled south from New York's bustling boulevards to the twisted, secretive dirt roads of Qualla Boundary, the sprawling Cherokee reservation. Here yellow fever had be-come a scourge of death. And here Dr. Janessa Holt Lawrence was coming to help a desperate people. But awaiting Janessa was both the shocking truth about her lost Indian past and a terrifying plot against her life. Even Senator Toby Holt's power might not reach her in time...as far away in Hawaii, the Blakes and the Brentwoods found a serpent in paradise. Unscrupulous sugar growers had turned to treachery and murder to wrest the island from its gentle people, and young Mike Holt, the daring of wagon master Whip Holt coursing through his veins, would plunge headlong into a dangerous adventure to follow the dictates of his heart in--Carolina Courage, Volume Three of THE HOLTS: An American Dynasty.