The Dream Lives On

Book excerpt: In The Dream Lives Onlatest entry in the rich series of Anna Gills Chesapeake novelscharacters from the past return to rescue Eastern Shore farms and farmers from a sinister plan being put in motion by a powerful political figure determined to make huge sums of money at their expense. Congressman Charles Lee, descendant of the historic Lee family of Virginia, and his new wife, Willa Carpenter, well-known romance writer, decide to live on an island in the Chesapeake after purchasing an old home in Tuckerton for their weekend retreat. It is here they begin to learn that what Charles did in the past to help watermen survive on the bay might well be what he is called to do again for the Chesapeakes farmers. In this novel of passion for a way of lifechampioning never-changing traditions in an ever-changing outside worldold friends and new ones come together in a significant show of force to preserve what they love the most. The watermens cause is put on hold while farminggrains, fruit, vegetables, and, especially, chickenstakes center stage in a power struggle that changes everything. The rhythm of life that cycles land and sea and the folks who care for both and has generated an entire way of life is just too important to let die.