All That Will Remain

"Astute and affecting." - Kirkus Reviews

It’s 1914, and the Lyle family, like the United States itself, is at a crossroads. Malcolm Lyle, no engineering genius like his father, Colin, who founded the Keystone Steam Works, must decide whether to devote the company’s resources to a lucrative war project, or to back his son, Augustus, in the development of the steam-powered Lylemobile. Meanwhile, he learns that his youngest son, John Lincoln, has gone off unannounced to join a multinational effort to fight the Kaiser’s invasion of Europe, and that the boy’s unmarried twin sister, Mary Lydia, is pregnant. His wife, Missy, is no help, content to lie around in her peignoirs reading women’s magazines and eating bonbons. His steely eighty-nine-year-old Mother, Libby, watches Malcolm with what he believes is an unapproving eye. Then there is Libby’s Caribbean maid, Perpetual, an impenetrable figure with a room full of medicinal plants and an indelible, irrepressible spirit, who has become the axis around whom the Lyle household revolves.

All That Will Remain

Videos

Here’s a video introduction to the mill town of Furnass.

Reviews, Extra Scenes, etc.

Full Review – IndieReader
Full Review – Kirkus Reviews