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CAROLINE
Caroline's beautiful dreams are gone, stolen by the wantonly reckless hit-and-run driver who killed Jack. But she has no time to malinger and mourn his loss. She has to be brave and strong for Betsy Ann and Johnny; they've lost their father's love and all he meant to them. And, like everyone else in the 1930's, she had to be wary of the depressed economy. No one knew when, if ever, it would recover.
The Great Depression was an unforgiving, dog-eat-dog economy and Caroline and her children found themselves in it without warning. There was no floor in that economy no financial supports for the handicapped, the poor, and the widowed--abandoned third-class citizens, less than that. But Caroline wouldn't beg and compromise. She'd adapt, hold on, and persevere. She'd prevail.
When Detective Frank Cavanaugh finds her she isn't a clinging vine. She's made progress from a startup of nothing. She's out of the woods. Now all he has to do to apprehend Jack's killer id overcome legal technicalities, legislative confusion, and corrupt police politics. In the process of pulling the whole thing off romance and survival become intertwined.
The story of Caroline's triumph of love has romantic twists and turns throughout. For a time those who play by the rules and those who don't co-exist on a parallel plane--the latter blithely unaware of their transgressions--until a converse of right more powerful than wrong culminates in a well-deserved happy ending.
The Great Depression was an unforgiving, dog-eat-dog economy and Caroline and her children found themselves in it without warning. There was no floor in that economy no financial supports for the handicapped, the poor, and the widowed--abandoned third-class citizens, less than that. But Caroline wouldn't beg and compromise. She'd adapt, hold on, and persevere. She'd prevail.
When Detective Frank Cavanaugh finds her she isn't a clinging vine. She's made progress from a startup of nothing. She's out of the woods. Now all he has to do to apprehend Jack's killer id overcome legal technicalities, legislative confusion, and corrupt police politics. In the process of pulling the whole thing off romance and survival become intertwined.
The story of Caroline's triumph of love has romantic twists and turns throughout. For a time those who play by the rules and those who don't co-exist on a parallel plane--the latter blithely unaware of their transgressions--until a converse of right more powerful than wrong culminates in a well-deserved happy ending.
630 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 1, 2015
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John Charles
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