Moonshine, Coal, and Hope

Two men from humble beginnings in the hills of Southeastern Kentucky return from the battlefields of France after World War I and seek lives they never dreamed possible before the war.John Fulton, a former coal miner who became an Army medic, finds a new life for himself and his youngest brother Bob, a teenage coal miner with aspirations of his own.Ed Elkins, the son of a looked down upon moonshining family returned from the war with a new sense of purpose - to make his name mean something. And that means business alliances with men named Capone and Kennedy.As the Fulton and Elkins families start to increase in prominence they are forced to deal with the powerful and corrupt Milner family  who will stop at nothing to crush anyone or anything in path to holding onto the status quo.This is the first book of the Kentucky Yarn series and takes place from World War I into the start of the Great Depression.