"The Mapmaker's Children" combines two stories of women in different eras searching to find love, purpose and community. One plot line follows Sarah Brown during a tumultuous time of civil war. Sarah,the daughter of abolitionist John Brown, was a strong and ambitious woman who loved well, sacrificed much, and labored continually to continue her father's work on the Underground Railroad. While well researched, author Sarah McCoy takes some creative liberties to better capture what Sarah Brown may have felt and dreamed during her lifetime. Eden Anderson is a present day character who makes the move to a beautiful historical home on Apple Hill in hopes of saving her marriage and beginning her longed-for and seemingly impossible family. Along the way she discovers that her new home has some stories of its own to tell and as a result, Eden finds family - and healing - in the most unexpected places. The thematic elements woven throughout each story are finding love a...