My Old True Love

<p>The Stantons and the Nortons were family in the truest oldest sense: an extended network of kin stretching across the Appalachian mountains their ties to the land as strong as their ties to one another. So when Larkin Stanton is left parentless at birth in the 1840s he is taken in by his cousin Arty Norton and true to the family way Arty teaches Larkin the old Appalachian ballads the family has sung together for centuries. But when Arty’s brother Hackley leaves to fight in the Civil War Larkin finds himself drawn to Hackley’s wife the woman who has held Larkin’s heart for years.</p>