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The Cradle and the Cold Ground

The Cradle and the Cold Ground

Owensby, Rachel

Paperback

Literary Criticism19th Century United States History

ISBN13: 9798191044880
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 24 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the last night of February, 1851, four men came for the wrong home.

They meant to rob a wealthy stranger, but instead they found a tenant and his family. By morning six people were dead or dying, among them an infant left sleeping in a cradle, his father rocking until his last breath. Three men hanged that Fall. A year later, a dying man in a Philadelphia prison yard confessed to a crime that wasn't his alone to confess, and named a fifth man Kent County never caught.

A hundred and seventy years later, writer Owen Marsh moves into a rented farmhouse two miles from the empty field where it happened. Determined to finally tell the whole story only to find a county has spent a century and a half deciding exactly how much of its own history to remember, and a woman named Ruth Anne Furlong who has spent her whole life guarding the rest.

The Cradle and the Cold Ground moves between the last ordinary days of a family about to lose everything and a present-day search for the truth a town has always quietly known but never fully told.

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