"Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically"-- En 1937 Alice Wright toma la impulsiva decisión de abandonar Inglaterra...

1936. En plena Gran Depresión, en los montes Apalaches de Kentucky, Cussy Mary Carter, de diecinueve años, apodada Damisela y con una rara peculiaridad en su piel, es una de las libreras itinerantes del Proyecto de la Biblioteca Ecuestre auspiciado por Roosevelt como parte de su "New Deal". Huérfana de madre, animosa y obstinada, Damisela ha de hacer frente al desapacible clima, al terreno accidentado, a personajes hostiles y a todo tipo de peligros...

"In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...

"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble...