NOT ALL ASHES is a classic, southern, romance novel. The operatic exploration of the essence of love, life, death, happiness, betrayal, forgiveness, and the essential meaning of a nuclear family cohort are explored using the colorful setting of the small town of Black Bayou located on the Texas Gulf Coast during the two decades prior to World War II. A panoramic study of the intertwining lives of the Malloys, the Mathews, and the Hollands, allows the reader the leisure of exploring the vicissitudes of the beautiful and talented Christina Malloy, an orphan adrift In a small Texas Gulf coast...