Missing Quail Crossing on Audio Book

Missing Quail Crossings is now on audio book! 

World War II is finally over, and Dovie Grant is thrilled that her loved ones are finally coming home. As Dovie's longtime love, Gabe Pearce, and her adoptive son, Elmer Brewer, return home, the family is overjoyed. The happiness of their reunion is cut short when the news that Dovie's son-in-law, Evalyn's husband, Robert, is missing in action.

Even with Robert MIA, there is a ray of light when the Brewer's long lost sister, Ellie, arrives in their hometown, Knollwood, TX. With little information regarding her troubled past, Dovie takes Ellie home to Quail Crossings without hesitation, hoping to start the healing process for the young girl who now refuses to speak.

As Ellie deals with a lifetime of abuse, Elmer adjusts to life off the battlefield, and Evalyn aches for her lost love. Dovie is quickly realizing that the Germans may have surrendered, but the battle at home is just beginning.

Because Of My Mother

When I was in grade school we had an academic competition called Storytelling. You'd think I'd be a shoe-in right, but no. The object to the competition was to hear a story and then repeat that story. I couldn't do that. The entire time I was supposed to be listening to the story, I was writing my own story. I would go into the room, judges expecting to hear the prepared story and I would tell an entirely different story. And for some crazy reason I never won.

My love for storytelling began early with hearing my own mother read her stories to us. We were just babies when my mother wrote us a lullaby, A Land Not So Very Far Away. To this day she'll tell you she can't sing, but I remember thinking that I had never heard anything so beautiful. I was in awe that my mother had written this fantastic lullaby (so fantastic is won 2nd Honorable Mention at this year's Oklahoma Writer's Federation, Inc contest). And I knew I wanted to be just like her. I knew I wanted to create a lullaby for my own baby one day.

Truth be told I haven't written a lullaby. I sing my baby the same lullaby my momma sang to me (because it's awesome y'all). But I am living my dream of being a writer. And I write because of my mother. It was because of my mother that I wrote and published my first novel. It was because of my mother that I entered and won contests. It was because of my mother that I stood up in front of 400 people last Sunday and finally got to tell my story.

I love you, Mom.

My sister, Brandy, my mother, Cathy and me