The Summer of Grace
Description
Ten-year-old Gracie sits on the backyard picnic table, hugging Brown Hound, wiping her nose on the dog's fur. Her daddy is sending them both to her grandmother for the summer. They are too much for her high-strung mother.
It's 1951 on the NC family farm when Gracie and Brown Hound meet the family. Great Granny Jane smokes a pipe and is fast with her cane, Miss Emily is loving but firm, and Jane, her cousin of the same age, has a swashbuckler's heart.
It is wild and heady freedom, far from her mother's scorn and her father's indifference. The girls hunt for ancient graves, sneak visits to the conjure woman, fight, make up, and sleep in the same bed, tangled like puppies.
But there is also Marcell, the solitary woman who keeps the house. Her dark skin shines but not her eyes; her history is mysteriously entwined with the family, and for some inexplicable reason she hates dogs. Gracie and Jane must fix this before Brown Hound gets sent away.
In this time of segregation and inequality, can the girls unearth Marcell's secrets? Why must they find a missing grave? And what time-worn promise exposed will reveal the family's hidden past?
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About the Author
Author, broadcast journalist and freelance writer Karen Jones is the author of The Summer of Grace, Up the Bestseller Lists! A Hands-On Guide to Successful Book Promotion, Death for Beginners, and The Highland Witch.
Jones has fifteen years of experience in television news as an on-air anchor and feature reporter where she wrote and produced the Associated Press Award winning series The Haunting of Virginia. She co-directed the Chesapeake Writer’s Conference, was an advisor of The Bay School of the Arts, and is a member of the National League of American Pen Women, and the Authors Guild.
She has taught writing seminars at the University of Richmond, Christopher Newport University, LSU and CNU. She also held week-long intensive writing camps for adults on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina.
Jones lives beside the Atlantic Ocean with her amazingly tolerant husband. She can be reached at her website: kjwriter.com
