Reconstructing Jackson - Holly Bush

Holly Bush

Category: Westerns

Narrator: BJ Schraff

Tags: Westerns, Romance

1867 . . . Southern lawyer and Civil War veteran, Reed Jackson, returns to his familys plantation in a wheelchair. His father deems him unfit, and deeds the Jackson holdings, including his intended bride, to a younger brother. Angry and bitter, Reed moves west to Fenton, Missouri, home to a cousin with a successful business, intending to start over., Belle Richards, a dirt poor farm girl aching to learn how to read, cleans, cooks and holds together her familys meager property. A violent brother and a drunken father plot to marry her off, and gain a new horse in the bargain. But Belles got other plans, and risks her life to reach them., Reed is captivated by Belle from their first meeting, but wheelchair bound, is unable to protect her from violence. Bleak times will challenge Reed and Belles courage and dreams as they forge a new beginning from the ashes of war and ignorance.