Paula and Sagan face their greatest challenges, yet. Either together or apart, they come face to face with ghosts they thought they'd long laid to rest. Their future now mandates a reconciliation of unspoken deeds, broken alliances, and haunting questions they had avoided asking. Their lives come full circle at the beckoning of one motivated by love, curiosity, and a charge to continue a legacy of enlightenment. Two cultures collide in this third installment of the Sagan Series and two families can learn to stand together against adversity or be ripped apart by their secrets.

Daniel Francis is the product of middle class America and has come to define his place in the world around this identity. When he comes to terms with who and what he isn't, his whole life becomes one big and deeply etched question mark. Can he embrace what he once snubbed? Can he become comfortable with the truth of his foundation? Daniel must suffer incredible losses to find that which is of greatest importance-----himself.

History repeats itself in an uncanny way when Dawson McKay finds himself haunted by his dead father's demons. The eerie similarities in the lives and the deaths of Dawson's mother and his wife rear the old question of the iniquities of the father revisiting the next generation.

Home Town Humor Small Town Humor Essays of family humor Southern Adages/Sayings Rural African American Humor African American Aphorisms

Esther Farmer was born in shame and dishonor. She worked hard to right the wrongs of generations before her and vowed to hold tightly to that which she deemed precious. When the Farmer empire is threatened Esther would stop at nothing to secure the image of grace she coveted. Now the next generation must come to terms with Esther's decisions.