Highland Hopes Author:Gary Parker Heartwarming Fiction From the Blue Ridge Mountains Blue Ridge folks keep their tales in their minds...folded up like a stack of quiltsjust waiting for the time when they can pull them out and spread them open. Solomon Porter, a strong and stubborn mountain man, must come to terms with a devastating loss, one that has left his... more » only daughter Abby to grow up feeling isolated and out of place. Their strained relationship contributes to Abbys desire to escape the constricting mountains of her upbringing, learn all there is to know, and create for herself a new life of independence, of possibilities. Will such a life be all she expected? Will distance from home only serve to remind her of the chasm that exists between herself and her pa? In this powerful first episode of the BLUE RIDGE LEGACY series, Abigail Faith Porter, an unpretentious 100-year-old matriarch, recounts the astounding events of her life, beginning with the tragic circumstances of her own birth. Out of Abbys rich memory, the struggles and triumphs of growing up in the hollers of the Blue Ridge Mountains spring to life.« less