The Cottonwoods by Lyn Farrell
About The Cottonwoods
Women's Fiction/Romance
Camel/Coffeetown/Epicenter Press
Pages 238
When Amber Bradshaw was twelve, her dying mother made her promise that someday she would find the family treasure brought to the U.S. by her great grandparents during WWI. She’s been left the farmhouse they built but the farm on which it stands is to be sold. If Amber is ever to find the treasure, it has to be soon. She locates her great Grandmother Ina’s journal which speaks of shimmering golden coins, but also tells of her bitterness with her husband who stole her dowry and ripped her from her homeland. It’s an all-too-familiar concept to Amber who struggles with her own resentment about having to become a “mother” to her little sister, Claire, after her mother died. With two men interested in her, a heavy decision to make about Claire’s baby, and an agro-company trying to buy the farm, Amber has big decisions to make. Will she choose the right man? Will she keep Claire’s baby? Will she find the treasure? It’s a landscape strewn with snares and Amber is determined not to put a foot wrong.
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She knew what was happening. She was being drawn back into the role of the “big sister,” the one who always took care of others. Except for the day I went to the lake, her conscience reminded her and the memory flared again like a brush fire.
When she reached the little lake near their house—just a pond really—the area was deserted. She stripped off her clothes, dove in the water and then popped to the surface, exhilarated and laughing. The water had been stingingly cold on her bare skin.
Pushing her dripping hair off her face, she thought she heard a boy’s taunting laughter. She waited as long as she could, not wanting him to see her naked, but in just moments, desperate to escape the cold, she scrambled up the bank. She waited there for several minutes, hunkered down, but hearing nothing more, dashed to the place she had left her clothes.
They weren’t there.
About Lyn Farrell
Lyn Farquhar – author name Lyn Farrell – has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University where she worked for the medical school until her retirement. Subsequently, she published a 7 book series of mysteries with her daughter (pen name Lia Farrell) entitled the “Mae December mysteries”. She then initiated a second mystery series starting with “The Blind Switch.” The second in that series, “The Blind Split” will be released in 2022. Lyn is a master gardener, a “dog mom” to her Cavalier Spaniel, Dezi, and the granddaughter of noted artist Eugene Iverd. She is the mother of two bio daughters, six step-kids, and twelve grandchildren. When she isn’t gardening, writing, spending time with family or playing with Dezi, she searches for the original art by her grandfather.
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