The Valley Where They Danced

Emory Jones’s love and deep understanding of Southern history has resulted in this gem of a novel set in Georgia’s foothills just after World War I. It’s a time and place where good choices lead to romance and bad ones set the stage for a twist of an ending at Tallulah Gorge. The Valley Where They Danced introduces you to characters so real you’ll believe they indeed lived here, and many—like the Hardman family, its patriarch a future Georgia governor, actually did. Georgia’s first settlers heard the tragic tale of Nacoochee, a Cherokee, and her great love, Sautee, a handsome Chickasaw brave. In uncanny similarity, Dr. Tom and the lovely Lenore eerily follow in those same primeval footsteps a thousand years later. Whether you're familiar with every blade of grass and rock-outcropping in the valleys that this book winds through...or you've never even heard the correct pronunciation of Nacoochee and Sautee, your heart will thank you for reading this book.