DONNA EVERHART is a USA Today bestselling author known for When the Jessamine Grows, The Saints of Swallow Hill, The Moonshiner’s Daughter, The Forgiving Kind, The Road to Bittersweet, and The Education of Dixie Dupree.
In the 1950's, a sudden confrontation with the local sheriff lands a young woman in the State Industrial Farm Colony for Women, an institution determined to "cure" women deemed promiscuous or indecent. Alongside dozens of others who were accused merely for being poor, pretty, unmarried, or owning a business as a single woman... The women must fight to survive the harsh medical treatment and grueling labor overseen by a superintendent convinced she is saving their souls, learning quickly that freedom comes only to those who strictly abide by the Colony's rules.