Second Wives

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Amid the political chaos of the German Confederation in 1848 and with crops on his Baden farm failing thirty-six-year-old Martin Kornmeyer persuades his wife Esther to emigrate to America with their seven children and her widowed younger sister Rosa. When Esther falls ill on the journey the family is delayed in the Netherlands for two years-a time marked by guilt new love and death while they strive to follow the dictates of their Catholic faith.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>At last the family crosses the Atlantic and settles in the farming regions of western New York State. As decades pass there first Martin's oldest son Karl and then Karl's daughter Emma also face love and loss and look to that earlier generation for guidance.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Inspired by the author's ancestors this historical saga traces the lives of three generations through marriage loss and the possibility of renewal through a second love.</span></p>