Mary Elizabeth Fitzconnor and Billy Savage are "wildflowers" -- two children of the Erie Canal, raised in the dark domain of Schoon Lock in the fictional milltown of Schoon Landing, New York. The story traces their eventful lives as each finds a means of escaping the bounds of the canal, while confronting and overcoming the challenges of injustice, war, zealotry, and class conflict along the way.
Add doses of history, romance, murder and intrigue, and then lace it all together with a great secret which only reveals itself at the concluding climax, and "Wildflowers in the Clay" becomes an epic story which will appeal to readers of many different genres.
And if an epic saga presented concisely in an easily read format of 158 pages isn't enough, the book also features a collection of original illustrations by New York artist Mark Davison.
