Widowed Ellen Ross, an urban professor, had no warning of what awaited her and her three children when she married Garth Epstein, whose resume read like a fairy tale: handsome, charming, well-educated and owner of one of oldest and largest ranches in East Texas. What it didnt list was: narcissistic, arrogant and controlling, with an undertone of darkness that only Jennifer, her precocious oldest, seemed to perceive. Garth uprooted the family and moved them to Lake Point, Texas, a place deeply steeped in old bloodline traditions and prejudices against women, a piercing thorn in Jennifers liberated and extremely competitive side.
To honor his wifes death-bed wish, William Brock had sent his impulsive, gangly, rabbit-shooting, tomboyish fourteen-year-old daughter, Hannah, to Boston to live with her aunt and to attend Boston Finishing School. In 1827, four years later, Hannah returns to Arkansas Post as a beautiful, poised and gracious young lady. She meets a handsome, elusive stranger who sends her emotions reeling, involves herself with the problems of a childhood friend and takes on a ruthless banker who is out to destroy her. She quickly realizes she must combine the best of both her worlds to survive in the currently evolving structure of Arkansas Post.
Stunned siblings, Sheri Watkins, a third-year nursing student at TWU in Denton, Texas and her older brother, Kyle Watkins, a first-year med student at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, vow to find the dark secret behind their seemingly happy, successful parents double suicides. In their quest, they encounter many closed doors, but continue relentlessly in their search and discover a hidden past known only to their father.
Mary Wiggins Cotton, a retired educator and the author of SHADOWS FROM THE PAST, THE BIRTHMARK, THE FAVOR, RETURN TO ARKANSAS POST and SOUTHERN-LORE, a free e-mag, lives in West Monroe, Louisiana with her beloved husband, Bob, where she is lovingly known as Mamaw Mary to their combined family of nine children and an ever increasing number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
To honor his wifes death-bed wish, William Brock had sent his impulsive, gangly, rabbit-shooting, tomboyish fourteen-year-old daughter, Hannah, to Boston to live with her aunt and to attend Boston Finishing School. In 1827, four years later, Hannah returns to Arkansas Post as a beautiful, poised and gracious young lady. She meets a handsome, elusive stranger who sends her emotions reeling, involves herself with the problems of a childhood friend and takes on a ruthless banker who is out to destroy her. She quickly realizes she must combine the best of both her worlds to survive in the currently evolving structure of Arkansas Post.
Widowed Ellen Ross, an urban professor, had no warning of what awaited her and her three children when she married Garth Epstein, whose resume read like a fairy tale: handsome, charming, well-educated and owner of one of oldest and largest ranches in East Texas. What it didnt list was: narcissistic, arrogant and controlling, with an undertone of darkness that only Jennifer, her precocious oldest, seemed to perceive. Garth uprooted the family and moved them to Lake Point, Texas, a place deeply steeped in old bloodline traditions and prejudices against women, a piercing thorn in Jennifers liberated and extremely competitive side.
Mary Wiggins Cotton, a retired educator and the author of SHADOWS FROM THE PAST, THE BIRTHMARK, THE FAVOR, RETURN TO ARKANSAS POST and SOUTHERN-LORE, a free e-mag, lives in West Monroe, Louisiana with her beloved husband, Bob, where she is lovingly known as Mamaw Mary to their combined family of nine children and an ever increasing number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Stunned siblings, Sheri Watkins, a third-year nursing student at TWU in Denton, Texas and her older brother, Kyle Watkins, a first-year med student at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, vow to find the dark secret behind their seemingly happy, successful parents double suicides. In their quest, they encounter many closed doors, but continue relentlessly in their search and discover a hidden past known only to their father.
This text is a modern rhetoric/reader which integrates reading and writing concerns, provides high interest reading selections across a variety of themes, includes a diversity of authors, cultures, and life experiences, and builds a framework for study and practice which is pedagogically sound and flexible.
Abusive guards, filthy conditions, and an immate's suicide led to a riot her first week on the job at Camden County Youth Center. But Mary, a woman of rare courage and deep faith, set out on a quiet crusade to restore order and instill hope in her new charges. Mary survived a traumtic time in a Japanese concentration camp through discipline, self respect, and faith in God. Now she applies those values to young outlaws.
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