In Old Kentucky

Set in the Kentucky Bluegrass and surrounding mountains, the narrative follows a young woman orphaned after her parents' murder by a man named Lem Lindsay. Raised amid small farms and winding trails, she carries a bitter longing for revenge while managing inherited land and daily life. Joe Lorey, son of another victim, becomes entwined in her hopes and community ties as longstanding feuds, local suspicion, and chance encounters drive confrontations on bridges, ridges, and valley paths. The work sketches rural customs, landscape, and the tension between vengeance, law, and the possibility of love and reconciliation.