With the discovery of an old family diary in the 1980s, James Hughes tells his son family stories that transport them back into the America of the 19th century. The Belmont’s, an old established family had money, status, and power. Jeremiah, their son, is born just when the slavery issue is beginning to gain critical mass. The disparity he sees between the haves and the have-nots as well as his sensitive nature drives him to seek answers to the problem of evil. His three friends, Lam, Bill and Sophie, as well as his father, continually challenge his strident choices. Ultimately, like many in that era, he feels the call to move to the unsettled frontier to find a new life…and that’s when his biggest adventure begins.

This book is subtitled “Fever.” Fever is Book I in the Out of the Storm trilogy based on The Book of Job. Many scholars believe that The Book of Job is the oldest book in the Bible. There are even some who think it ranks, as a work of literature, among the greatest of all time. In many ways The Book of Job is a model of creation and as such becomes everyone’s story.