Foundations

by Mandy Langston Manley

Josephine Wildt Cardwell, 29, has been waiting for several years to land the reporting job she really wants at the Paducah Sun. Few people on staff know more about the town's history than Jo, but she has been relegated to event planning and research by a good old boy editor who clearly got his job from an old fraternity brother. One day, she receives an anonymous note on her desk at work that makes her reconsider everything she thought she knew about her lineage. It seems that her parents, dead from a plane crash while on an archaeological research trip in Italy when she was 6, are not actually her biological relatives. The story jumps to 1978, and a young woman named Lilly who goes away to college and finds herself in love for the first time. Her family doesn't approve of her choice, so she decides to run away with her love, which results in scandal, a broken heart and a tragedy.

174 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published October 9, 2010