Home Sweet Home

From the widely praised author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey series and A Star for Mrs. Blake this riveting epic drama follows the Kusek family from New York City to America''s heartland where they are caught up in the panic of McCarthyism a smear campaign a sensational trial and ultimately murder.In the spring of 1950 Calvin and Betsy Kusek load their family in the station wagon and head west from New York City to relocate to a close-knit town in South Dakota. They settle on a ranch and begin a life in their new state. Betsy becomes a visiting nurse befriending a quirky assortment of rural characters and Cal jumps at the chance to serve his community when a seat opens up in the state legislature. Their children Jo and Lance grow up caring for animals and riding rodeo. But things change when Cal runs for the U.S. Senate. The FBI investigates Betsy and a youthful dalliance with the Communist Party surfaces to haunt the Kuseks. Communist hysteria takes over their small town inflamed by Cals political enemies. Driven by fear and hate their neighbors turn on them. Decades later tragedy again strikes the family as the ghosts of their past come back to haunt them.