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The Widow of Kater's Corner
Paperback
General Juvenile FictionHistory
Publisher: Clara M Everhart
Published: Aug 29 2026
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
New Hampshire wilderness, 1840s. Before she was the woman the whole village of Franconia whispered about with admiration, she was just a hired girl with no name worth remembering - until she made one for
herself.
The Widow of Kater's Corner is a sweeping historical fiction frontier romance and family saga set in the wild, half-cleared backcountry of 19th-century New England. It is the untold story of Mary Erskine - orphan, farmwife, and finally pioneer widow - who claws a homestead out of the forest with her husband Albert, only to have calamity, debt, and the law itself threaten to take it all away.
When tragedy strikes and Mary Erskine is left alone with young children, a half-cleared farm, and a two-hundred-dollar debt hanging over her head, she must do what no woman in Franconia has done before: run the farm herself, face down the courts, and prove that a widow's grit is worth more than a village's pity.
Rich with log-cabin homesteading, courtroom drama, small-town loyalty, moral courage, and the quiet, hard-won resilience of frontier women, this is a story of love, loss, land, and the stubborn hope that rebuilds a life from nothing. Fans of Little House on the Prairie, Cold Mountain, and classic American pioneer fiction will find in Mary Erskine a heroine as tough as the New Hampshire granite she farms.
A tale of wilderness, widowhood, and the will to keep what's yours.
Perfect for fans of: historical fiction - frontier romance - pioneer woman - 19th century America - New England saga - widow's story - homesteading - log cabin life - rural Americana - family saga - courtroom drama - resilience - moral courage - small-town fiction - Franconia stories - Jacob Abbott - classic Americana reimagined
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