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Author: Herbert Harker
Turn Again Home is the moving, beautifully written saga of a Mormon family haunted through generations by a terrible secret.
When Alma suddenly vanishes on his seventy-seventh birthday, his son Jared begins a search that spans the length of the West, from Canada to Utah. The trail leads Jared to his father's diary, which alludes to some unnamed sin, and to clues that his father was a witness to the Mountain Meadows massacre-the slaughter, in 1857, by Mormons and Indians of a wagon train of more than a hundred people.
Circumstances halt the search-a bad accident on horseback, recuperation at the home of Hickory Jack, a local rancher, and the courtship of Jack's lovely daughter, Kelley-until, seven years later, married and a father himself, Jared has, to all appearances, abandoned his quest. But an ironic tum of events throws open once again the mystery of his missing father and jeopardizes Jared's family's peace and their lives.
For Jared finds a tragic connection be-tween his father, his father-in-law and the Mountain Meadows massacre. His own life becomes entangled in the guilt and bitter-ness that pursued the two older men for so many years. Only the presence of his small son during a final violent confrontation makes Jared realize that he must stop the passing of the sins of the fathers onto still another generation.
Rich in the historical detail of the Old West as it becomes to modernized and the drama of turn-of-the-century Mormons trying to preserve their way of life in a hostile environment, this is the powerful second novel by the author of Goldenrod.
