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In THE MAGNOLIA BALL -dash- TWO, Bonita Roberts was wrongfully incarcerated in the New Hanover County Jail and since has taken to her bed in Spencer, Tennessee, a humiliated and broken woman. Hannah, her faithful maid, fears for her employer’s life because of Bonita’s refusal to eat. The former “Queen of Spencer Society” will see no one and only rouses herself to heed the call of nature or when Hannah insists that she bathe. Will the little Mexican girl who survived living in a two-room mosquito and rodent-infested shack with numerous brothers and sisters and an abusive father; who survived thirty years as a high-priced call girl in Los Angeles; and who survived her fall from social ...
Bonita's become a pariah in South Carolina and leaves for greener pastures in Tennessee. Once again she becomes embroiled in scandal amidst delightful dialogue, gossip, parties, teas, luncheons, stately mansions, designer clothing and exquisite jewelry. Interspersed with delicious Southern recipes for comfort foods, get ready for another frolic through Dixieland with all of its mores, nuances, dialogue, colloquialisms, gentility, sex, and occasional depravity.
Stolen Sons is a retreat to the bosom of the old South with its mansions, estates, plantations, beautiful women, gala balls, delicious foods, and life at a slower pace. Readers will delight in the courtship of Leila, aged twenty, and Louis, aged sixty, and the love shared by Hannah and John, Leila's parents. Against a Southern backdrop and interwoven with the love story, there is tragedy-the first-born sons of the Fox family are meeting violent deaths, one after another. Members of the family must discover what is causing the deaths in an effort to prevent more. Are they the result of an ancient Indian curse placed on Hannah's father Rainbow by his aunt Pale Dove? How can the Fox family negate the curse? Is there an antidote? Readers will become so intrigued with this family that loves, laughs, cries, mourns, and betrays one another that they will feel they are related to the characters. In the tradition of the old South, the reader will become "a first cousin, once-removed."
It's time to select the young ladies of Dorchester County, South Carolina, who will make their debuts to society in 1991. Prior to the selection meeting by the much revered Magnolia Ball Committee, we meet seven of the most powerful members and learn their secrets. Seven of the young ladies who are to be presented then bring their antics to the pages of this hilarious novel. As the lives of the committee members and the young ladies are interwoven, "come -heres"_people from outside Dorchester County _ arrive on the scene to create mayhem and intrigue. Prominent citizens and other locals become involved in the "come-heres'" cellular telehphone "business" and Dorchester County is exposed nationwide. Southern traditions, phrasing, foods, estates, foibles and genteel poverty are all explored in a delightful tongue in cheek trek through Dixie.
Stolen Sons is a retreat to the bosom of the old South with its mansions, estates, plantations, beautiful women, gala balls, delicious foods, and life at a slower pace. Readers will delight in the courtship of Leila, aged twenty, and Louis, aged sixty, and the love shared by Hannah and John, Leila's parents. Against a Southern backdrop and interwoven with the love story, there is tragedy-the first-born sons of the Fox family are meeting violent deaths, one after another. Members of the family must discover what is causing the deaths in an effort to prevent more. Are they the result of an ancient Indian curse placed on Hannah's father Rainbow by his aunt Pale Dove? How can the Fox family negate the curse? Is there an antidote? Readers will become so intrigued with this family that loves, laughs, cries, mourns, and betrays one another that they will feel they are related to the characters. In the tradition of the old South, the reader will become "a first cousin, once-removed."
A musical about aging gracefully and facing a host of midlife crises with dignity and courage.