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Can you fall in love with a psychopathic murderer? Sure you can! Parker Hewitt is a grocery clerk in small town Mountville, NC where he fights Jim Crow his way whether or not he marries the daughter of a Klan member he removed from society. But while Parker's actions are horrific, his care and concern for his sharecropper friends enable them to reach unimaginable success in achieving their own dreams. Their daughter, Shanae, sees injustice in the workplace, in voting access, in education, in public transportation, and finds herself at the edge of history working with Robert Kennedy, Adam Clayton Powell, and Martin Luther King, Jr.; writing the story that would become our story: the struggle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While Parker Hewitt the man is a devil whose own demons can only be calmed by his gentle wife, Willow, Parker Hewitt, the novel sizzles and swoops through America's troubled history from the Depression through the Civil Rights Era. The interwoven stories of the families of Mountville are engaging and riveting, heart-warming and gut-wrenching. Steven Schaffer spent over 30 years as a social studies teacher in Maryland public schools. He continues to write about injustice, politics, theater and is writing children's' books that are lot happier. He lives in complete happiness in Maryland with his wife, Sue.