Winter Seedlings is a story of survival from childhood sexual abuse, the journey to heal the heart, mind, and body. It is a story rich with characters struggling to define their sexuality, reach self-acceptance, and understand what it means to be loved.
Jute's mother married Earl in 1984. Within minutes of moving into his trailer in Maryville, Tennessee, they were shown just how evil he could be. Her sister chose to try to please him. Jute chose to try to avoid him. If she could, Jute would have made herself invisible. Instead, she made herself repulsive, even frightening. This kept...
Winter Seedlings is a story of survival from childhood sexual abuse, the journey to heal the heart, mind, and body. It is a story rich with charact...
A teenage girl in Eastern Kentucky has been isolated since birth. She experiences abuse from her father as unquestionably the will of God. She obeys his rules in hopes of banishing her demons and finding redemption. But when she breaks a rule in order to teach herself to read the Bible, she discovers something more powerful than God's laws. A hidden letter written sixteen years prior by a woman named Allie to her lover, Jute, reveals both disturbing and electrifying secrets. She feels called to find Jute and deliver the letter to her, even if none of the maps in the Bible show the way to...
A teenage girl in Eastern Kentucky has been isolated since birth. She experiences abuse from her father as unquestionably the will of God. She obeys h...
Suicidal thoughts had comforted Rhoda since she was a child. She never actually wanted to die. But that changed on a cool autumn day in 1969 when the lifeless body of her infant daughter was pulled from the banks of Clinch River. Distraught, Rhoda set out on a journey to get as far away from War Gap as she could. With bus tickets and the use of her exhausted legs, she made it all the way to Grand Saline, Texas. She fell on the ground in the middle of nowhere and placed a gun to her head. Only, it wasn't the middle of nowhere. It was one of the few farms owned by a Black family in all of Van...
Suicidal thoughts had comforted Rhoda since she was a child. She never actually wanted to die. But that changed on a cool autumn day in 1969 when the ...
