Moon's Light Cove — Geraldine Fisher Ashe

In 1870, when Jewel, a young woman from the Piedmont of North Carolina, falls in love and marries Charles, a widower from the mountains of Western North Carolina, her life is eternally changed. She becomes the mother of two rambunctious twin boys and is cast into situations that she never dreamed possible. Her strong faith in God sustains her as she learns to become a wife and a mother. She must learn as a young woman what most mountain women learned as girls at their mother's knee. Jewel, who once filled her days with church volunteer work and crocheting, must now do all the work required to provide for her new family. Jewel faces trials of every sort, from snakes and a charging wild boar to the cold shoulder of her new mother-in-law.As the quiet nights of Moon's Light Cove are interrupted by the screams of a panther, Jewel joins the community as they all work together to protect their families and to survive. With all that Jewel must endure as Moon's Light Cove becomes her home, she learns that good Christian friends, no matter who they might be, are the greatest friends of all. Come and share in Jewel's struggles and her triumphs as she learns that with God, all things are possible.