Sam Taggart (1)

When the civil engineering student and the rabbi’s daughter met in Vienna, little did they know that their children’s futures would be torn apart by a coming world war.

J. L. Stein, their middle child, follows in his father’s engineering footsteps, but his future is clouded by the shadow of the Third Reich. At the urging of his politically outspoken mother, Helena Edit-Stein, he travels to America to find his wayward brother Franz and finds himself caught up in the morass of German-American politics and social groups.

Eventually, Jean Louis ends up at the bauxite mining operation in Saline County, Arkansas. The Nazis have a long arm, however, and coerce J. L. into spying for them by imprisoning first his mother, and then his sister in concentration camps. Caught between two worlds, he must make a dangerous decision to try and preserve the new life and new love he is building for himself in Arkansas.
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Often, the best families are the ones people make for themselves, not necessarily the ones they were born into. When the troubled Jack Smith turns up at Moon’s Café in Gum Ridge, Arkansas, he has finally found a home where he is accepted despite his quirks - like his unique ability to feel and see flavors.

Gum Ridge may be small, but life is never dull around Moon’s Café and the cast of locals who frequent it and the nearby race track. Solving the mystery of Jack’s origin just may hold the key to everyone’s salvation…. if Moon doesn’t mess it up.
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