The Sugar Camp Quilter (Elm Creek Quilts, Book 7)

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Book club edition. Front jacket flap creased. Ink name on front endpaper. 2005 Hard Cover. 306 pp. Set in Creek’s Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years leading up to the Civil War, the novel follows Dorothea Granger’s passage from innocence to wisdom against the harrowing backdrop of the American struggle over slavery. She discovers that a quilt she has stitched for her uncle Jacob with five unusual patterns of his own design contains hidden clues to guide runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad. The heroic journey she undertakes leads to revelations about her own courage and resourcefulness—newfound qualities that may win her the heart of the best man she has ever known.