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I have written and published four Christian Romance novels with a touch of the angelic supernatural. I am working on Book #5 Dying on the Edge of Glory that includes the horrific Tribulation. It’s my passion to write love stories so my characters can explain salvation and how to go to Heaven after you die.
MY FIRST STAND ALONE BOOK FANNIE & WILKE: For the Love of a Country Girl ~ Published 2010 This is a Christian Supernatural Romance novel about my Appalachian grandparents who lived over 100 years ago in a deep holler of Stony Fork, Kentucky. Fannie Brock, my grandma, was a spunky, fourteen-year-old girl with raven, black hair and longed for the attention of a handsome Wilkerson Lawson who was two years older but she still wanted to play with baby dolls and kittens. They ran into each other everywhere. The preacher’s wife saw something special about Wilkerson Lawson after he delivered the lumber for their new church. The Lord told her to pray for him because God had chosen him for something great.
MY THREE-BOOK “EDGE OF GLORY” SERIES.
Book #1 RUNNING on the Edge of Glory ~ 2018 At thirteen, Joel Joseph fell apart when his ministerial parents were murdered in cold blood. He felt responsible for their deaths so he ran away from foster care and befriended a mysterious homeless man in Central Park. Joel doesn’t know that old Roscoe can’t tell him his last name or he will lose Joel’s friendship. The man who murdered Joel’s parents is the man who will save Joel.
Book #2 LIVING on the Edge of Glory ~2020 After surviving their honeymoon in the Bahamas, Alicia Joseph and her husband Joel left NYC to live the quiet life in Oakley, Ohio. When her husband was shot, Joel became paralyzed from the waist down. Rich Alicia bought him every amenity he needed so he could keep his dignity and his job teaching school. After ten years, Alicia was broken-hearted when she had to say goodbye to her dear husband. After mourning for Joel for six months she realized she was having feelings for her husband’s best friend, John. Alicia avoided John’s phone calls for six months until she got a strange email from her husband.
Book #3 DYING on the Edge of Glory ~ COMING IN 2022 Alicia Joseph’s son, Ling, and his wife, Hagar, are devastated over the disappearance of millions of people in the Rapture when they turn on the TV. Multiple planes, cars, trucks, trains, and helicopters have crashed all over the world due to the drivers and pilots disappearing. The couple drives over to Ling’s mother Alicia’s house and both she and John are missing. All the channels on TV are saying the RAPTURE of the Bible has happened! According to Revelation 6 the next event on the biblical timeline is the horrible Tribulation! How will Ling and Hagar survive?
A stand-alone Biography of My Mother Book #5 called MARIE: Saving the Best for Last
After my Appalachian-born mother, Marie Lawson, graduated from Berea College with a teaching degree, she taught for a year and hated teaching. She and her sister, Sue, left the hills of Kentucky to hopefully find a good job and a good husband in Cincinnati, Ohio. Marie found the job of her dreams but now she couldn’t decide if she wanted to marry Jimmy Wilcox or not.
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My first book, FANNIE & WILKE: For the Love of a Country Girl is a love story about my young Appalachia Grandmother named Fannie Brock who meets her true love, my grandpa I never met, Wilkerson Lawson, at a hoe-down barn dance. When he follows her to ask her name, it scares her half to death and she runs home. Her white veil of purity will sometimes clash with her red-hot temper that flares up unexpectedly. Her chirpy voice can spellbind you with a ghost story one minute and cuss you out the next.
As for Wilke, you wouldn’t think that the simple act of a young country girl shooting a mountain lion in self-defense would be the final prerequisite that would convince him that his days of searching for love were over. The obstacles that would stand in the way before he was allowed to court the raven-haired beauty were a painful challenge but worth the wait. But, life’s hindrances didn’t keep the two lovers’ paths from crossing just as only Providence would have it.
This love story started in 1894 when Fannie was fourteen and she went to her first barn dance. She could dance a fast jig that was similar to cloggers today. When Wilkerson Lawson saw her dancing with people watching, he knew she was the girl of his dreams. When Wilke asks Fannie’s father for her hand in marriage the protective father says no until something changes his mind.
My first book signing for FANNIE &WILKE.
My first book signing was at HEALTH ON MAIN, Hamilton, Ohio. Fannie used lots of homeopathic healing remedies.
Snippets of this book available here
Fannie & Wilke: For the Love of a Country Girl
Thirteen year old Fannie Brock only had a year to live out her childhood before she would start courting Wilkerson Lawson. Even her pappy said Wilke was an honest good catch! As Providence would have Fannie kept running into Wilke in Red Bird, Kentucky!
Fannie Brock from Red Bird, Kentucky by Kathy Storrie
Fannie definitely decided she needed a daily dose of Wilke’s summer blue eyes to calm her nerves. She longed to hear his voice because it flowed like warm butter over her ornery soul. She dreamed of marrying him as soon as possible because a lifetime with this man would not be enough.
Country Road Take Me Home by Emmett Creative Commons
Was she ready to give up playing with corn husk dolls, catching crawdads in the creek, orchestrating kitten shows, telling ghost stories and playing tricks on her tomfoolery brothers? She owned a chirpy voice that could spellbind a person one minute and cuss them out like a sailor next.
Wagon in the snow by Rick Cooper Creative Commons
On occasion, Fannie’s white veil of purity clashed with her red-hot temper especially when hearing gossiping old biddies in the General Store. They said she was too plain, too dumb and too poor to be a future governor’s wife. They bragged that their daughters were ten times more qualified for Wilke than that country bumpkin!
Mountain Lion by benjeroni Creative Commons
The one thing that convinced Wilke that Fannie was the only girl for him wasn’t when she drew a crowd while dancing a jig; or when she got soaking wet after she fell in a water trough; or the time she delivered a baby; nor when she learned how to read. It was when he left her alone on a snowy, mountain road she killed a mountain lion in self-defense. Wilke could have any beautiful, prestigious girl in all of Kentucky on his arm but none of them compared to the selfless, eye-catching, vivacious country girl called Fannie Brock.
Snippets of this book available here
