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She really doesn’t care when loggers die though. She thinks of ingenious solutions to problems, such as rattlesnake bites among the loggers.

There’s a kind of mythology that springs up around her in the camp. She seemed to see those weaker than her as prey, and she saw almost everyone as being weaker than her. I had to admire her strength and ambition, but she was ruthless and proud of it. I detested her, but she is going to stick with me the way Lady MacBeth and Medea have. What a character Ron Rash has created in Serena. Her ambition outmatches his and she drives him to succeed, prosper, and expand at any cost.

In Depression-era North Carolina, a timber baron marries Serena and brings her to the lumber camps to live.