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Where the Bluestem Returns: Erica's Story - Book Six
Paperback
Series: Bluestem, Book 6
Publisher Price: $15.99
Publisher: Jeffrey Rittenhouse
Published: Jul 24 2026
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The prairie took her mother's voice. The bank wants everything else.
Kansas, 1985. The farms are dying by paper now, not by fire or dust, and Erica Weber reads the death certificates for a living in the loan department of a Wichita bank. She left the family land at eighteen. She knows better than anyone alive what the numbers say about places like home.
Then a phone call comes on an April afternoon. Her mother is on the kitchen floor, the coffee boiled dry, and the farm that five generations of women held through fire, influenza, the Dust Bowl, and war is suddenly hers to save, with interest rates at a killing height, land values falling through the floor, and a note coming due that her father signed for all the right reasons in all the wrong years.
Erica comes home to a mother who must relearn every word, a sister lost to the city and the fast life, and a county going to auction one neighbor at a time. Then a quiet drifter walks up the lane, a Vietnam veteran who listens to engines the way the old stories say a hired man once did, and who carries, wrapped in flannel in his tool roll, a secret that reaches back to the farm's hardest year.
Some things the prairie takes. Some things it sends walking back up the road.
Where the Bluestem Returns is the sixth book in the beloved Bluestem series, a story of stubborn love, second chances, and a family that does not let go, perfect for readers of heartland fiction and multigenerational family sagas. Each book stands alone; together they follow one Kansas farm and the women who kept it across a century.
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