In the summer of 1865, Emmaline Gullege is eleven years old and stubborn as a mule. Determined to do exactly what she sets her mind to, she explores the mountains and valleys around her home with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and a keen eye that misses nothing. When her mother dies, Emmaline, Emmy for short, is thrust into the mystical, spiritual world of her mother’s native peoples, the Cherokee.
Upon her mother’s death, she sees her mother still there in the cabin shared with her family and refuses to believe that she is dead. Her refusal to accept her mothers crossing launches her on a mission to find and talk with her mother by using the powers bestowed on her by her great-grandfather, Two Feathers, the Keeper of the Sacred…show more content… Charles faltered, he did not know whether to follow her or attend to the filling in and covering up of his mother’s grave. They needed to do that before one of the children fell into it and got hurt. He looked around for his brothers, knowing they would be the ones who helped him. Martha’s husband, Ollie Henley, died during the war, and although Nancy’s beau, Jefferson Aldridge was there, he would not be of any help. He was too highfalutin to do manual labor. Charles wondered how Jefferson was going to manage his plantation now that most of his slaves had gone.
Charles saw Uriah and John, but they were still in conversation with neighbors and friends who had come to pay their final respects to their mother; he decided to sit down. He wanted to try to have a conversation with his mother, especially while no one else was around to disturb him. She had been dead for two days and had not come to him. He was beginning to feel her loss and his heart ached for her. He and his mother had been close his entire life, now she was
