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THE WRITERS LOUNGE PRESENTS: JUDALON DE BORNAY

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A very compelling and rich story of love, hardship and endurance on the great frontier.

 

Join host Tom Riddell and co-host Teri Brown as they welcome author Judalon de Bornay to The Writers Lounge. Sit back and relax as Judalon discusses what it's like to be a writer and she will also talk to us about her book: Great Crossing

It's 1807, just a few decades shy from the revolution and the birth of a brand-new nation. People are trying to get comfortable into their new settlements, while also enduring the tensions that are beginning to build once again with Britain. Frontier life is hard and dangerous, but matriarch Jemima Johnson has political visions for her family and her young son Richard, a future Vice President of The United States, is the focus. Richard strives to fulfill his mother's plans for his future, but there could be a huge roadblock in those plans. Richard is having romantic feelings for a slave that is owned by the Johnson family. Julia also develops feelings for Richard, but she works to keep her emotions under cover, for it is a relationship the family would never allow. Defying all of the public outcry and the demands of his family, Richard soon takes Julia as his bride. The man, Richard Mentor Johnson, who would later become Vice President, faces down the elites of American society and some very important men in Washington. He dares to go where many wouldn't. This is a love story but it's much more than that. It's about life in all of its happiest and ugliest forms and how, despite it all, we continue to embrace it, even during the earliest days of a young and growing nation.

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