Synopsis: Trust, love and friendship—Abigail Anne Lannigan searched for these things all her life.
Now, when she is at the tail end of her years, she teams up with a free-spirited young woman. A nobody from nowhere, who suddenly moves in across the street. This unlikely friendship comes under suspicion when a million dollars goes missing and a distant relative, claims embezzlement. Abigail knows the truth of what happened, but she’ll never get the chance to tell..
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I was barelythirteen years old when Mama died and left me and Will in the care of Papa, a manwho’d think nothing of shoving a dose of castor oil down my throat just so hecould watch my face turn inside out. “It’s good for what ails you,” he’d say;yet, I noticed he never gave Will the same big dose. Papa didn’t say it inprecise words, but he made it clear enough he wouldn’t give two hoots if allthe girl babies in
It’s a roundaboutstory, but Papa’s blind-sightedness is the very reason Destiny Fairchild mayend up in the Women’s Correctional Facility—which is a fancy way of sayingpenitentiary. Everybody’s life could have been a whole lot different if Mamahadn’t died before she got a chance to set things right. She was the one totell Papa there were two sides to every story and he should have the fairnessof mind to hear them all the way through. Will, bless his heart, wasn’t theleast bit like Papa; nonetheless, we’d get to scrapping over something—who wassmarter, who slacked on their chores, who said what and who didn’t—and that’swhen Mama stepped in. She’d make us sit at the kitchen table and tell bothversions of how the tussle got started. After everything was all explained,she’d generally say we should be ashamed of ourselves, fussing over such a bitof nonsense when here we were twins, born of the same seed, a brother andsister, linked together for life. More often than not, she’d dole out apunishment that involved standing in opposite corners of the room and thinkingthings over for a while.
Unfortunately,Destiny didn’t have Mama to see to the fairness of things before they got out ofhand; besides, in her case there were three sides, hers, Elliott’s and mine.Problem is, no one’s ever heard mine—not even Judge Kensington.
Review: This was a very quick read- I read it in one sitting! I wish the author had included more of Abigail's past life in the book, but from the ending there may be a second book in the works, so that could by why. The book starts out with Abigail being born and her early life, then goes back and forth between the recent past and the present, and the days of prohibition. By the end of the first chapter, your heart will be attached to Abigail and you will want the best for her! While the ending will resolve the primary puzzle of the novel (and made the reader happy for the most part), it opens more, especially about characters who 'disappear', like Abigail's best friend and goddaughter, allowing for new characters for the second book, if the author chooses. All in all, this was a wonderful little read, and I recommend it for an afternoon by the fire!
About the Author:Born in Detroit and raised in a plethora of states scattered across the South and Northeast, Crosby originally studied art and began her career as a packaging designer. When asked to write a few lines of copy for the back of a pantyhose package, she discovered a love for words that was irrepressible. After years of writing for business, she turned to works of fiction and never looked back. “Storytelling is in my blood,” Crosby laughingly admits, “My mom was not a writer, but she was a captivating storyteller, so I find myself using bits and pieces of her voice in most everything I write.”Crosby’s work was first recognized in 2006 when she received The National League of American Pen Women Award for a then unpublished manuscript. Since that, she has gone on to win several more awards, including another NLAPW award, three Royal Palm Literary Awards, the FPA President’s Book Award Gold Medal and most recently the 2011 Reviewer’s Choice Award and Reader’s View Southeast Fiction Literary Award.For more info, check out her Website, Facebook page, Twitter - @betteleecrosby, and Pinterest
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