Family of Samuel DeVaughan, who came to Nash Co., N.C. from Granville, N.C. sometime between 1774 and 1779. All his eleven children were born in Nash Co., N.C. from 1778 to ca. 1797. By 1820 all of Samuel's children and their families had left North Carolina. Samuel was then in Dallas Co., Alabama. Descendants live in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina and elsewhere.

Dunnagan ancestry is traced to Andrew Jackson Dunnagan (1813-1892) who was born in Dickson County, Tennessee, son of James Dunnagan and Sabillah Honer (Horner). He married Margaret Ann Austin (1837- 1929) and later died in Sulphur Rock, Arkansas. One descendant, Mary Jane Matilda Dunnagan, married Zedoc Freeman Richard DeVaughan (1854-1901) in 1880. Includes Bible records of families of various descendants, including Frances Marion Engles, William McMillan (1870-1938), Zorah Z. Gray (1870-1942), James Jarrett McClesky and other related families. Also includes Bible records of family of Ezekiel Dunagan (1771-1847) of Georgia. Family members primarily lived in Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.

Leaving behind a nomadic and dangerous career as a journalist, Sarah DeVaughan returns to India, the country of her childhood and a place of unspeakable family tragedy, to help preserve the endangered Bengal tigers. Meanwhile, at home in Kentucky, her sister, Quinn-also deeply scarred by the past and herself a keeper of secrets-tries to support her sister, even as she fears that India will be Sarah's undoing. As Sarah faces challenges in her new job-made complicated by complex local politics and a forbidden love-Quinn copes with their mother's refusal to talk about the past, her son's life-threatening illness, and her own increasingly troubled marriage. When Sarah asks Quinn to join her in India, Quinn realizes that the only way to overcome the past is to return to it, and it is in this place of stunning natural beauty and hidden danger that the sisters can finally understand the ways in which their family has disappeared-from their shared history, from one another-and recognize that they may need to risk everything to find themselves again. With dramatic urgency, a powerful sense of place, and a beautifully rendered cast of characters revealing a deep understanding of human nature in all its flawed glory, Katy Yocom has created an unforgettable novel about saving all that is precious, from endangered species to the indelible bonds among family.