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Sabine reads her mother's journals trying to discover the identity of her father and help Josephine move on to her next milestone.
The second novel of the Sabine Trilogy traces Josephine's dysfunction. Her inability to be a mother becomes obvious when viewed from her own perspective. A victim of neglect and abuse after her mother's death, Josephine suffers unthinkable trauma and then is allowed to medicate herself with alcohol in her father's home. She attempts to escape, but finds herself layering more dysfunction and bad choices on her already chaotic life.
In reading Josephine's Journals, Sabine gains some insight into her mother's dysfunction and can almost come to accept and forgive her unspeakable neglect. | |  | | Opal's Story, a Novel
A tragedy in 1948 bonds a family in an unspoken history. Is it a secret or a sign of respect for the central character, Opal?
In 1948 a murder/suicide rocks a small west Texas town, devastating a prominent family, changing their lives forever. A family reunion of sorts requires the elders to answer questions about the tragedy in their young adulthood, something all of them wanted to avoid. The central figure, Opal, is also facing a terminal illness and wants to accomplish the only bullet on her bucket list. Although feisty and good-humored, the tragedy in Opal’s past is almost unbearable and the retelling brings her support system together again to face what they thought they had left in the past. Joy, Opal’s inquisi | |  | | Sabine, Book One of the Sabine Trilogy
The coming of age tale of a gifted, sensitive girl on an isolated ranch in south Texas, where she lives with her mentally ill mother, Josephine. Sabine yearns to discover the secrets of her mother and the identity of her father.
Book one in the Sabine Trilogy introduces Sabine Cole, a gifted child who is learning to cope with her psychic abilities while coping with the mental illness and alcoholism of her mother, Josephine. She communicates with the spirits in their derelict mansion, the angels and the demons. When her estranged brother, Billy, returns to the ranch, Sabine realizes there is hope, but it is evasive and she most learn to cope with loss disappointment to reach the level of forgiveness and understanding it takes to cope with the challenges in her life.
Sabine is ultimately a tale of love and forg | |  | | Secrets of Dunn House, Book Three of the Sabine Trilogy
Sabine meets her great grandmother and discovers the darkest secret of the Dunn House in this final book of the Sabine Trilogy
After convincing Ms. Emily and Jimbo to renovate the Dunn House and open a bed and breakfast, Sabine discovers the spirit of her great grandmother, Elizabeth LeDoux Dunn. There are lies, abuse, dysfunction and murder in the Dunn history and Sabine is surprised to learn the victims and the perpetrators.
In this final book of the Sabine Trilogy, Sabine embraces her unconventional family and learns to accept the history of the infamous Dunn family. She also has the opportunity to discover her own father while planning surprises and matchmaking. | |  | | Tangled, a Southern Gothic Yarn
Nettie Campbell is at a crossroads, but she is responsible for her alcoholic, mentally ill mother and her peculiar uncle Pup. Will a homeless housekeeper with ESP be able to help her?
A southern family saga emerges as Nettie begins a quest to discover who she is. Twenty-one years old and Annette Roberta Randall is searching, looking for herself. The perception and sensitivity she relied on to bolster her through an isolated childhood have disappeared and with them her sense of self. Nettie also seeks the truth, information about her dysfunctional family and the mysteries that whisper to her in their eccentric family home. She receives glimpses in the alcohol induced monologues of her mother, Delores Cecelia, "DeCe". However, DeCe lost herself long before Nettie was born, an | |  | | The Bridge on Jackson Road
An anthology of spooky stories set in rural south Texas, where dark country roads and Mexican folklore hold are the makings of a nightmare.
The Bridge on Jackson Road is a real place, a place where you can stand in the middle of the bridge and holler. An echo comes back on the wind, and sometimes carries something else. These stories are all set in real places and describe coming of age experiences that can haunt a childhood.
Storms, secrets, the unexplained, and real experiences are the basis of these tales and they are meant to be unsettling. BOO! | |  | | The Bright Shawl, Colors of Tender Whispers
Bella Rodriguez has decided it’s time to leave her step-father’s home. Her mother has been dead for three years and her older sister, Rosalinda, has disappeared. Bella fears she is next unless she makes a plan of her own. However, she struggles with what will happen to her younger brother, Manny.
While Bella plans a journey to a new life, Manny is left to face the unraveling of the only home he has ever known. Without Bella, his father’s motives and instability is obvious. He is torn between the loyalty to his father and the dependability of his step-sister. The siblings experience whispers, guiding them to follow their instincts, but sometimes these messages are clouded in their own uncertainty. Will they cling to the known, or strike out and shape their own futures, and if they do, how will they ever know a family?
Bella encounters a self-proclaimed, distracted psychic, Gina |
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Secrets in the Fairy Chimneys
by Linda Frank
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 Secrets in the Fairy Chimneys, set in Istanbul and Cappadocia Turkey takes Annie Tillery to an archaeological where accidents and thefts plague the scientists. Thrilling chases, cave explorations, and danger from desperate traffickers in ancient hist |
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