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Lily is Rose's best friend in "The
Rose Series." She is s single mother and works as a nurse. She and her baby, Anna Rose, move to Bristol, Virginia to begin a new life. Doug, her former husband, reappears, much to her dismay. A mysterious half sister appears and makes plans to take out her revenge on Lily. Most of the characters from "the Rose Series' are in or mentioned in the book.
Although Lily's Story is not included in the Rose Series, it continues the story of Rose through the life story of Lily. Lily, as a single mother in the 1960s encounters situations and problems foreign to Rose and other family members. She is courted by three very good men.T this dilemma carries the main theme of the book as she weighs each one's strengths and weaknesses.
| |  | | Promises To Keep
The third book in the "Rose Series" follows Rose through her senior year in high school. The book recounts the end of the "rightful heir story" and the move to the Keller mansion. The inheritance does not ensure Rose, her family or friends a life without stress and crises.
| |  | | Return to Bridgetown
The fourth book in the "Rose Series" begins the summer after Rose's graduation from high school. Her friend,Lily, marries against everyone's advice. A new house takes shape on the site of the Keller Mansion. Rose enters college and meets her fist love, Lewis David, who turns out not to be the person he claims to be. Granny Esther becomes ill after Rose's first year in college and after caring for her Rose changes her major to Nursing. She receives a speeding ticket from a handsome trooper on her way to her granny's and thus begins a long lasting romance.
| |  | | Rose's Song
Twelve year old Rose Collins, a Melungeon from Kentucky, has grown up in this fifth book of the "Rose Series."
| |  | | Satan's Best Friend
This book is a fictional account of how an abused little girl grows up to be a controlling, narcissistic adult who founds a cult. Maggie is a troubled young woman who seeks answers to her problems by entering Preacher Pat's world,completely unaware it's a cult. Maggie finds herself caught in an inescapable web of lies and broken promises.
| |  | | The Journey Home
Rose Collins is a 12 year old Melungeon girl form the mountains of Kentucky, recently orphaned. She is sent to live wiht her only relative, Aunt Margaret, near Bristol. Virginia Set in the early 50s during segregation she incounters bigotry from classmates.
I first saw the word Melungeon in the novel, Big Stone Gap. After doing extensive research, I decided to use this mixed race group as my main characters. | |  | | Trunk Tales
A collection of stories and happenings that were called to mind by memorabilla found in an old trunk left unopened for over fifty years. They tell the story of a family in photographs, receipts for crops, tax bills and the original deed to the family farm.
| |  | | View From The Attic
This second book in the "Rose Series" picks up the rightful heir story. Rose contunues to encounter the prejudices of race. She and Aunt Margaret make another trip to Bridgetown in search of Rose's birth parents. Her "Granny Esther" enters the picture when she crashes Aunt Margaret's and James' wedding reception.
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