The Swan Keeper

Girlhood, courage, nature, and flight from a tyrant¿s hand in post-frontier Montana.¿Lillian Connelly loves trumpeter swans and vows to protect them from a hunter who is killing them and leaving their carcasses for the wolves and coyotes to ravage.¿On her eleventh birthday Lilly¿s family visits the Cattail Marsh to see the newly hatched cygnets.The family outing turns tragic when Dean Drake shows up with his shotgun and fires on not only the swans, but on Lilly¿s family. Unable to prevent tragedy, Lillian witnesses Drake kill her father, injure her mother and slaughter the bevy of trumpeter swans. The sheriff, Charlie West, thinks that Lilly is reacting to the trauma and blaming Drake because of a previous conflict between Drake and her father. Lilly¿s mother, sister and her best friend, Jerome West, the sheriff¿s son, all think the same thing: that Lilly is trying to make sense of a senseless accident. ¿Left alone to bring Dean Drake to justice, Lilly¿s effort is subverted when Drake woos her sister, courts her mother, and moves into their home.¿The Swan Keeper is an historical, coming of age novel set in Northwest Montana's Mission Valley in the late 1920s.

• | Author: Milana Marsenich
• | Publisher: Open Books
• | Publication Date: May 16, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1948598035
• | ISBN-13: 9781948598033