Heritage Road: 20th Century Family Saga (Book 1 Mia: North Country Girl)

In this first in a series of four novels featuring the interplay of private lives and public events, Mia Arceneau, bubbly daughter of a vigorously idealistic physician and an outspoken country midwife, grows up in an iconic early-20th century America.

Meeting a brainy but impulsive young man from a prominent family sparks in the fanciful mountain girl an infatuation propelling her from the remote Adirondacks to Boston's privileged Beacon Hill. Following America's entry into World War I, Mia keeps her promise to a compelling soldier and moves to a boisterous neighborhood of Irish immigrants.

After enduring devastating losses in a lethal wartime epidemic, Mia experiences motherhood, and then finds passion with an audacious charmer. During the exuberant 1920's, hardscrabble '30's, and an ominous prewar period, Mia's ripening sensuality and deepening insight foreshadow a radiant attachment.