Author: karenkondazian

Best Western, 2013 International Book Awards 2013 National Indie Excellence Awards winner, Western fiction category Award-Winner in the ‘Fiction: Historical’ category of The 2012 USA Best Book Awards Gold Prize in Historical Fiction & Best Western Fiction – 2013 Global Ebook Awards THE WHIP is inspired by the true story of a woman, Charlotte “Charley” Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of … (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man. As a young woman in Rhode Island, she fell in love with a runaway slave and had his child. The destruction of her family drove her west…