The Scapegoat — Mary Lee Settle

Set in 1912, The Scapegoat propels readers towards a fateful day in a coal miners' strike when distant relatives of the Beulah dynasty, only dimly aware of their blood ties, face off in a dispute that escalates into a frenzy of violence and ends in the slaughter of an innocent man.

A single day in a miners' strike in West Virginia brings into sharp focus fatal events and romantic and other entanglements involving native-born and immigrant miners, mine owners, supervisors, Baldwin guards, strikebreakers, and scabs

A novel of struggle, change, fate.

A West Virginia coalminers' strike in 1912 pits oppressed workers led by Mother Jones against powerful strikebreakers and investors.

And a mine owner's daughter faces the tragic consequences of her outspoken radicalism before coming to terms with her town, her family, and herself…