Pure HeartAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 14 November 2017
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Troylyn Ball and her husband, Charlie, an engineer and real estate investor, had spent their entire lives in Texas. But after a near fatal trip to the emergency room with their mute, wheelchair-bound son Coulton, they admitted the dust and the heat were too dangerous. To save their boys, the Balls cashed out, sold their beloved farm, and moved to Asheville, North Carolina.
Nearing fifty, Troy thought her chance at adventure had passed. But in this booming little Appalachian Mountain city of hippies, farmers, artisans, and retirees, she unexpectedly discovered a support network and something shed never had in twenty-five years of providing round-the-clock care for her special needs boys: the freedom to pursue her own dreams. She struck up a friendship with a legendary eighty-year-old raconteur from the mountains, met his friends, and soon found herself in a rickety country shack with an ingeniously inventive retired farmer trying to create the best recipe ever for traditional mountain moonshine.
But when the real estate bubble burst and the collapse of her husband Charlies new venture in Asheville left them deeply in debt, Troy realized her ten-year business plan for Troy Sons Platinum Whiskey wasnt enough. If she was going to save her familyand she was definitely going to save her familyshe needed to become the most successful woman in the legal whiskey business. And she needed to do it fast, before the bank took her house, her business, and everything shed worked so hard to achieve.
Full of eccentric characters and charming locationsfrom a "haunted" cabin in the mountains to the last farm in the world to grow heritage Crooked Creek cornPure Heart is a charming story of a woman who set out to find a purpose in the most unexpected of places, and ended up finding happiness, contentment, and a community of love and respect.
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