Under a Cloudless Sky!!




Under a Cloudless Sky

by Chris Fabry


The present and the past meet in this book about a Southern Coal mining town fighting to survive in a time where the big companies rule. We meet several very interesting characters in this storyline. Two of them are  Hollis Beasley, a landowner who is fighting to keep the land that his family had owned for years. Also feisty Ruby Handley Freeman whose children think that she is need of some fresh direction her life. Two very different people both taking a stand for something in their lives, paths that have crossed in the past.

The storyline goes back and forth from 1933 to 2004, telling a story from the childhood of dear 83 yr old Ruby.   A story that has been hidden for years and is now begging to be told to her loved ones. The truth that has been kept quiet of what happened the day of the Massacre of 1933. Hollis's granddaughter has a interest in writing a article for the memorial that is being set up for the victims of the massacre.   When she reaches out with an invitation to Ruby to come to the grand opening of the Company Store Museum. She is turned down with a flat "no", but this has Ruby thinking about her past and going back to where she came from to visit. After some issues with her children, Ruby decides to go back to the mining town of Beulah Mountain. Ruby' s journey is a hard one, with some bumps and bruises on the way. Along the way her children realize they are taking their mother for granted and have forgotten to think of her as a person. 

Hollis is having to make a decision  does he hold onto the land or provide a more comfortable life for his precious wife who was struggling to live thru each day.  As he watches all his neighbors sell out to the big company that has came to rejuvenate his beloved Beulah mountain. His stance is interrupted by a proclaimed savior for the town, who  is looking to make profit off of the coal in the area. 


Unbeknownst to both of these character their lives are going to intersect with each other. The childhood friends Ruby and Bean's story will reveal the truth of that fatal day in 1933.

Chris Fabry has taken a story and presented it in a very amazing way that grabs the readers attention and takes them to the end with a very surprising twist. 


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