Summary
Moonshine vapors coil like ectoplasm through the crevices of two blood-soaked Appalachian surnames, Harlan and Boone, whose feud predates the flicker of cinema itself. Into this carbon-black vendetta drifts Mollie Powell—stepchild to the Harlans, yet cherishing a clandestine ache for Clay Boone, the pacifist scion who swears off firearms after a kinsman’s heart is stilled by lead. Ridiculed as poltroon, Clay trudges through a gauntlet of sneers until moonshiner Buck Gomery’s predatory talons grip Julia Weston. One righteous flare of fists later, the Harlan brigade is clapped behind iron, vendetta extinguished, and the star-crossed lovers unshackled to wander the haze-laden hollows in tentative harmony.
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Although a feud between the Harlan and Boone families has been raging for years, Mollie Powell, the Harlan's stepdaughter, is secretly in love with Clay Boone. When a young member of the Boone clan is killed during one of the battles, Clay vows that he will never touch a gun again. Branded a coward by the other mountaineers, Clay keeps his oath until Buck Gomery, one of the moonshiners, attacks Julia Weston, the daughter of another moonshiner. Clay comes to Julia's defense, and during the fight the Harlans are arrested and jailed, thus freeing Clay and Mollie to live their lives together in peace.
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