The Lady Chronicles: The NSU beginning The Painted Lady Sometimes the risks may not be worth the sacrifice... Asha St. Claire is a young single mother who was willing to sacrifice whatever it took to secure financial freedom for her and her little boy. She believed those sacrifices finally paid off when she won a full academic scholarship to Natchez State University, a remote Mississippi college hundreds of miles away from her Chicago home-town. What she wasn't aware of was that in order to accept the scholarship, she would be forced to leave her son behind. Determined on becoming...