When one rough individual grabs at her she ends up in the lap of Connell McCormick. No wonder this book is a real page turner, you can't put it down.There are some real caring folks in this town of Harrison, Michigan and they will warm your heart.Lily has come to town with Oren, to help take pictures at the camps, and to try to locate her sister Daisy. You are looking at the face of pure evil, and the facts that are presented as fiction, some did actually happen. Now she is looking everywhere in the Michigan logging towns.When you read that some of the people in this book really existed and were as bad as they are portrayed here as they were in real life. Just when she thought her sister was fine and in a good loving home, she learns that she has run away. Lily Young will risk everything to find and rescue her sister. The love of family - whether the one you are born into or the one you create - can help surmount any difficulty.

She brings to light the horrors of a 'trade' that goes on to this day, luring in young girls with promises of easy money. It was a fast, page turning read with very likable good guys and rotten bad guys. She has a true gift for bringing time and place to life. Hedlund builds her romance slowly with humor, grace and it is grounded in as much reality as possible. Will their blossoming relationship be able to withstand familial and other pressures?This is a sweet tale of an impetuous girl and a thoughtful boy falling in love. But not everyone is in favor of said clean up. As they travel through various logging camps Lily searches for her sister and saves other young girls from a gruesome fate.In one small town Lily meets Connell, a young man trying to prove himself to his father and also 'one of the boys.' At first he doesn't understand her militant stand against bars and whores but starts to come around and soon the two are fighting together to both find Lily's sister and clean up the town. She worked with a kind bear of a man named Oren who was a traveling photographer. She wasn't happy and ran away for a 'job where she could make lots of money fast.' Lily knew this was not good and was determined to rescue her sister from a live of prostitution. Lily Young and her sister were orphans when her sister was placed with a family.

Enflamed by Jody Hedlund