Till Beth Do Us Part

by Rochelle Ransom

What if you found your murdered mother's journals?

With no father in the picture, Peyton Keller was raised by her grandparents in rural Laketown. As her senior year nears its end, Peyton discovers her dead mother’s journals. Determined to finally track down her father and solve her mother’s murder, she enlists the help of her best friend, Tristan. His mom and Peyton’s grew up best friends and his mom treats Peyton like family.

Tristan spends his spare time on athletic fields while Peyton prefers a science lab, yet they share a love of music, vinyl records, and live shows. Contrary to the occasional rumor, the two are only friends. As different as the attraction and repulsion of electrical charges, Tristan dives into relationships while Peyton avoids close contact with anyone outside her’s and Tristan’s family. All of that is about to change.As Peyton reads about her mother’s complicated high school relationships and attempts to navigate her own, she discovers adults can be as deceptive and foolish as teens. Peyton and Tristan use Beth's journals to piece together their parents’ past until Peyton discovers her mom had been keeping secrets from everyone, including her own best friend. Torn between learning the truth about her family and potentially tearing others apart, Peyton is faced with decisions that science can’t solve. Will the journals turn out to be the death of more than just Beth Keller?

451 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 30, 2023

About the author

Rochelle Ransom has been writing books since she was a young girl. She grew up in a small rural town in western New York with little access to TV. This led to an overzealous imagination, a pet chicken named Superchick and a memorable and cherished childhood. Her sister was her first reader and critic. She’d find Rochelle’s stories sitting around the house in random notebooks and read them, only to discover they usually had no ending.

A few colleges, degrees and many loans later, her characters were more dynamic, persistent and willing to stick around for an ending. However by then she was busy as her own main character with work, marriage, and four kids. After much support and encouragement from said husband and children; she has reunited with all of her old characters and a few new ones to finally publish her first novel. It has an ending that hopefully her sister and you will enjoy.

Rochelle lives in Virginia with her patient husband, supportive children, and very needy but lovable dog.

Reviews

[Shannen C.McPhee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Captivating hometown mystery

Rochelle Ransom again lures and subtly ensnares readers with her well spun tale set in an eerily familiar Western NY small town. Protagonist Peyton is entering senior year, and still dwelling on the unsolved murder of her mother years before. Peyton is a well rounded character whose growth throughout the story is paralleled by growing understanding of what lives are like behind her fellow classmate and townspeoples doors. That all is not as it seems, and peoples motivations stem from complex influences, something young adults start to become aware of as they ready themselves for adulting. Peytons twisted course of discovery into her mothers past leads to changes that affect many around her, and Ransoms' twists and turns keep you guessing to the last, and make this a book I found impossible to put down.

[Connie Moser · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good mystery and over all good book. It has mystery, romance and a good story about the characters.