Chimes From a Cracked Southern Belle (2021)
Winner of an Independent Publisher Book Award for Best Regional Fiction and a University of Georgia Book Club Pick.Most people think the reason Prudy Millings married the best-looking preacher in the Carolinas, who inexplicably turned psychotic and mowed her down with the church van, is that she was raised all wrong. So not true. Prudy, 38-years old, sets out on a winding path armed with a kookie outlook and an over-the-top family. She knows there is a great life on the other side of tragedy, although her crazed ex still sends threatening letters from prison. Prudy’s bold resurrection of her life begins two years after the crime spree that nearly killed her, leaving her flat-lining in front of Bi-Lo. She packs up her two precocious children and settles into her parents’ South Carolina hometown where her Proverbs spewing mama pretends her grown daughters are still virgins…. even after they’ve married and have children. In Chimes from a Cracked Southern Belle, Prudy finds new purpose and discovers joy in unexpected places SUCH AS:
- In a nursing home where she tends to 104-year-old Annie Sue who loves Posh Spice, still drives her ancient Skylark, and has a hankering for cold draft beer.
- In crashing funerals with her sex-kitten Aunt Weepie who attends funerals,even though she has no idea who’s in the coffins… just for the covered-dish meals served afterward.
Just as Prudy begins her journey toward recovery and to becoming a registered nurse, a dark secret surfaces – one that just could be her ticket to finding love again.
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