Neighbors considered seven year old Harmony Phillips, her father Cornell Phillips and her mother Estelle Pointer, to be upstanding citizens in their quiet little estate at Concord Manor.
They turned a blind eye to the lavish lifestyle they lived, compliments of Cornell’s involvement in the drug trade. When at the tender age of five, Harmony is abruptly taken away from her home by her scorned mother, her world is rocked. Without her father’s protection, she doesn’t just lose her expensive dolls she also loses any chance of a normal and healthy life.
Raunchy is a heartbreaking, explicit story of failed mother and daughter relationships. And although hope looms in this tale, it can undoubtedly be said that if some women are not fit to be mothers, Harmony Phillips is the worst of them all …
Cathy is on top of the world–beautiful, rich, a top movie star about to launch a new career as a cosmetics queen–when an unscrupulous photographer in search of a story causes her car to crash and burn, destroying her perfect body as well as her career and sending her scurrying for a place to hide her scars. Thomas, on the other hand, is still mourning the deaths of his wife and young son in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center and is slowly drinking himself to death while sleeping in the bed of his truck in an isolated hamlet in the North Carolina Blue Ridge Mountains. Together, however, they find they are stronger and better people, and they begin to take an active interest in the mountain community that has taken them both into their hearts, and into their kitchens. Once again, Smith has created an unforgettably poignant story in the best tradition of contemporary southern romantic women’s fiction. Lynne Welch
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A Connecticut heiress learns she’s adopted and travels to northern Florida “cracker”cattle ranch to find her birth parents. There she also finds unexpected romance with the ranch’s owner.
A GENTLE RAIN is a wonderful story full of tenderness, love, anger, passion and the generosity of the human spirit…This book is classified as Romance, but to me it was so much more, bigger, deeper, better. This is a story about families, those you are born with and then the families we make. About two people with very different backgrounds but more in common than they know. It’s about second chances, hope and a lot of faith….
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