Taylor Caldwell

It is a gray day when young Johnny Fletcher arrives in Barryfield to take up his new ministry after the war. The mining and industrial community is covered with a heavy pall of smoke and smog which seems to indicate its defeated spirit. Its people do not take kindly to this good-humored and resourceful man of God, whose Christianity infuses every act and word. But his uncompromising faith which disturbs their complacency is not the only unsettling...

Sweeping from the 1850s through the early 1920s, this towering family saga examines the price of ambition and power.

Follows the life of immigrant Joseph Armagh and his rise to financial and political power.