Author: melindaclayton
On a sweltering July morning in rural Tennessee, fifty-year-old Rebecca Reynolds visits the family farm, where she literally stumbles across the mutilated bodies of her parents and younger sister, a sister who had spent life in a wheelchair after a birth fraught with complications.Rebecca’s first thought is to call 911. Her second is to find her estranged sister, Lena, who was disowned by the … by the family years before. Her third is to wonder how long it will be before Lena is arrested for the murder of their family.As the police gather evidence pointing to Lena, the sisters turn…
On a beautiful fall evening, in the middle of a game of hide-and-seek, five-year-old Bobby Clark is kidnapped by his estranged father, a shiftless man with a history of domestic violence and drug abuse. Bobby’s twin brother Ricky watches, terrified, from his hiding place behind the bougainvillea, while mother Tabby, who also struggles with addiction, lies inebriated on the living room floor. … floor. Bobby isn’t seen by his loved ones again until a fateful morning twenty-five years later, when video of his arrest dominates the morning news. He has been charged with the murder of his father, but before…
In the 1940s South, Billy May struggles for equality among the closed-minded people who surround her. Can she survive in a world that refuses to accept her love for women?