Terri Morrison Kaiser
Like wildflower seeds drifting on the breeze, Daisy and Willa Grace leave their northern Wisconsin farm in 1933 for Depression-era Chicago, their cheap brown suitcases packed with hopes for the future and the promise of a better life for their family. The death of a younger brother haunts them both in different ways. Daisy is fiercely devoted to her family and vows to return as soon as she can. Surely, marriage and babies will wait for her return.
Willa Grace longs for new places and life beyond Emery Township. For her, the farm represents nothing but backbreaking work and the tragedy she can’t outrun, despite the young man who professes his love for her.
Wildflowers is a coming-of-age story about the unbreakable bond of sisterhood when life’s dreams are shattered, and there is no other recourse than to mine the depths of courage.
The Witness Tree
The year is 1944, and Esther Foley is sheltering herself and her two children along the banks of the Redemption River on land belonging to the new neighbor. Once they are discovered, Esther’s life is forever changed. Years later, when a skeletal foot slips from a hollow tree on the Foley family farm, secrets and lies spill forth, forcing Esther’s daughter, Helen, to relive the past and confront her own role in one tragic night.
The Butternut Creek Series
Finding Lucy
What can a small-town girl do against big-city money and a big-city ego when all she holds dear is threatened? Turns out quite a bit.
Kissing Livvy
Caught in an environmental protest gone awry, Livvy Sherman is staring down the barrel of Lumberjack Jesse Tully’s shotgun. The last thing Jesse needs is this hippy-dippy protestor with nowhere to go.
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