Road's End

by Rebecca Barrett

Road's End is an historical novel set in the deep South between 1900 and WWII. It is the family saga of three generations of women ruled by passion. Helen Fitzgerald has a chance encounter with a dark and exciting man on a hot August night in 1898. He has come to Charleston in search of guns and money for the Fenian cause. When he sails back to Ireland with his pockets filled with her father's gold, Helen is left with an unborn child. She accepts a marriage proposal from a quiet, gentle man who has loved her from afar but she is unable to accept his love and life in rural Alabama. Her husband's inability to win her love and his jealousy over the love she has for her child changes him. Their life together shapes their daughter, Anna. She sees what her mother's indifference does to her father, how this unrequited love twists him into something dark and unkind. As she grows into a young woman, Anna, in her turn, is torn between the good man who loves her and the stranger in their midst who tempts her with the unknown. While her choices are different from her mother, they are nonetheless as painful to those who love her. It is the happy occasion of Anna's daughter's wedding that brings all the secrets of the Carroll women to the surface. As a strange, wealthy, and exciting man enters Rose's life, will she follow in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother? Will her future be one of heartache and loss? Road's End is a story of love, betrayal, and dark secrets.

436 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 23, 2017

About the author

Rebecca Barrett writes historical fiction, the Hugo August Detective series, cozy mysteries, children’s stories, and short stories of life in the South. An avid reader all her life and a product of “front porch” socializing, she became a story-teller at an early age.

She resides in the lovely artist colony of Fairhope, AL, on the shores of Mobile Bay where she draws inspiration and joy.

Visit the author's website rebeccabarrett.com to enjoy some of her short stories.