“Wiegenstein eloquently presents Daybreak as a mirror of American society: ‘Conflict, injustice, rivalry—all the ills of humanity resided there, even if written in a smaller typeface than the great headlines of the world.’ Tensions between the region’s rustic ideals and difficult modern realities, including Turner family disputes, echo throughout. The setting feels like a true step back in time to a pivotal era. Bring Daybreak stands alone well, but the characters are so entrancing that new readers will likely want to read the previous volumes afterward to see them again.”

Sarah Johnson, Historical Novel Society

One era ends and another begins in this thrilling and thought-provoking final book in the Daybreak series. Community matriarch Charlotte Turner, now in her 90s, prepares to leave the world. Her granddaughter Petey, a single woman who owns the community newspaper, feels unready to shoulder the responsibility. In the mid-1920s Missouri Ozarks, farmers are struggling and the Ku Klux Klan has resurfaced. A deep and unexpected romance with an out-of-town social reformer only complicates Petey’s life more. Petey has to draw deep on her resilient rural heritage to overcome the many challenges that face her as her community moves from the horse-and-buggy era to the modern age.