Historical Fiction
Date Published: Sept. 29 2024
Publisher: Jan-Carol Publishing, Inc.
Three women, Callie, Lillian, and Lydia faced an adversary that would change their lives forever. He resided in the only home that Callie had ever known, ensnaring her into his vicious web of dominance and cruelty. His insatiable thirst for exacting fear soon traps Lillian and Lydia in his household. In due course, his own demise takes him down the road of no return.
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Locked in silence. During the early to mid-1920s, women were forced to keep silent about domestic violence, unwanted pregnancies, or sexual abuse. They were hidden or sent away, but mostly, they stayed with no relief and no way out. As blankets of extreme poverty lay upon the Appalachian Mountains, women’s mental and physical survival relied heavily on their will to live.
This book is based on true events of three women living in a time when there were no shelters, no crisis center, no groups to meet with, or counselors to call to help heal their troubled dreams or the scars that took root in their souls. Their circumstances forced each woman on a journey of brutality, resilience, love, and forgiveness, and united them in ways they could not have foreseen.
Callie was strong-willed and determined. Her home was in the hills of East Tennessee, where her mother died with the birth of another sibling. Lillian, a young girl of eighteen, grew up in the western mountains of North Carolina during the Great Influenza Epidemic that took her father’s life and left her mother and sisters anguishing in poverty. Lydia, who had been briefly abandoned during the beginning of her life, tried to fit in with her new surroundings, though her appearance was strikingly different from Callie. It was Lillian’s love story that brought the three together and led to a blueprint for endurance and survival.
About the Author
Sharon is a first-time author, retired nurse, mother, and grandmother. She grew up in the Appalachian Mountains and writes with a deep appreciation and admiration for women who live there. She chronicles the life of each character so her readers can be inspired by and benefit from their remarkable stories.
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