Lightning Keeper

<p>This is the story of an unlikely love at the dawn of the electric age in America. In 1914 Toma Pekocevic is a penniless immigrant in New York recently escaped from the bloody politics of the Balkans that has claimed most of his family. He is also a gifted inventor who designs a revolutionary water turbine while working with Harriet Bigelow scion of a proud Connecticut iron-making dynasty now fallen on hard times. Their attraction is immediate and overwhelming but every circumstance is against them. Toma's invention is all he has after losing Harriet to a wealthy politician but he is determined to win her back setting the stage for a confrontation that could change not only his life but the course of scientific progress. </p>