Sarranda's Heart: A love story of place

Sarranda Boylett's heart is mountain-bound--tied to her grandfather's grist mill and her memory of one night of lavender-scented passion. In the early 1800s Sarranda, accompanied by Lila, a young Irish serving girl, returns to her beloved western North Carolina. With determination and hope as deep as Sarranda's roots, the two meet challenges and obstacles in an isolated community changed by the Civil War losses and the influx of strangers. In a changing world where North and South may meet, even merge, without rancor and bitterness, their grit, grace and humor allow for opportunity and love in unexpected places. Choosing independence over comfort, the present over the past, they forge new lives for themselves and provide hope and support to impoverished women and children in Greene's Valley. Sarranda's Heart is about opening to the many kinds of love that may indeed "make all things possible." s