Minnie's Potatoes: When is brotherly love bad? When a woman's passions inflame two brothers at the same time.

"Minnie's Potatoes," is a historical romance novel about the journey of a cultivated urban woman from Prussia who is thrown into the pioneer life of Michigan's early lumbering era, widowed and left with ten children to support. The question of the novel is, can this woman survive by brewing and bootlegging moonshine during Prohibition's early days? The narrative was inspired by the life of the author's great grandmother and is told in her voice.