S. Lee Fisher

The country celebrates newfound prosperity and peace. Does Westchester Farm benefit?Western Pennsylvania, 1920. Henderson Westchester lords over his massive farm and family. The widower and father of seven children contemplates the unthinkable. The transfer of his family farm to his youngest child, a girl!Feisty, brilliant, outspoken, Olive Westchester remains at odds with her father after her favorite brother’s death.The nineteen-year-old who dreams of independence via a college education, not property ownership, succeeds in making her family’s life miserable as she awaits Henderson’s decision.Westchester Farm is the sequel to the multi-award-winning Becoming Olive W., and the prequel...

She’s beautiful and brilliant. But the world is not ready for her to shine….Western Pennsylvania, 1905. Olive Westchester dreams of being valued. Misunderstood, resented, and ignored by her large family after her mother's death, her only ally is an older brother who loves her unconditionally. And the hard-headed girl’s visions of making her mark are threatened by a close-minded society resentful of her superior intellect.Stunned after a jealous teacher expels her from the eighth grade, Olive's anger swells when her dismissive father does nothing to get her readmitted…instead pushing her to learn to be a wealthy man’s wife. But as tragedy strikes, she turns to a local laborer enamor...

Beautiful, brilliant, wealthy. The world should be Olive’s oyster. Does she want too much?For young women in the early 1900s, a string of pearls is sometimes the closest they can get to owning the world.Orphaned as a toddler, Olive, a bright, feisty child, struggles to establish her place in a wealthy farming family. Her sisters are jealous, her brothers feel threatened, and her father, inept as a parent, is dependent on her skills.Without a mother’s guidance, is it possible for this young woman to break social barriers on her own? Can she become the independent woman scholar that she has the potential to be?Set in the early 1900s in rural Pennsylvania, follow this spitfire through an em...