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thought-provoking journey. Realistic characters jump from the pages, triggering a host of feelings from pity to rage, sorrow to joy, hate to love. The suspenseful and fascinating Mortician's Wife is a highly recommended must read novel.
    – Elizabeth Sullivan, PhD (Calif)
     
    Some stories linger long after the last page has been turned. This is one of them. You will remember and feel for Ada.
    – Robert Morton, author of Death is Another Life
     
    This story within a story has two basic themes: The tragedy of spousal abuse and the super human effort needed to finally extricate oneself from this most despicable form of tyranny. Lowder’s novel provides a glimpse of the desperation many women face when caught in an inescapable situation with nowhere to turn. Lowder reveals the story of Ada’s miserable secret life using vivid descriptions, a touch of surrealism, dramatic scenes and a breathtaking sequence of surprising events. The emotions Lowder evokes race from abject pain to extreme joy. Read "The Mortician's Wife" for a memorable literary experience.
- Nancy Curteman, author of Murder Down Under

HIS FIRST MISTAKE
     
     
    Melissa Lowes
     
     
     
    Set amidst the dramatic landscape of both France and Germany during World War I, His First Mistake traces the intersection of disparate lives during war.
    Newlyweds Frances and Reginald retreat to the French countryside at the outbreak of World War I, but unseen events, and a brutal attack by a stranger, force them to leave for Dessau, Germany. It is in Dessau that Frances meets Elsha, a young German woman, and Derek, a Belgian art student – two people who will forever change Frances’ preconceived notions of friendship and love.
    This romantic, tragic, and haunting story evokes the uncertainty of war, the sacrifices one must make, and the indelible force of love.
     
     
    A story that is sweet, tender, and love- (and life-) affirming.
    – Bill Kirton, author of The Figurehead, Material Evidence, Rough Justice, The Darkness
     
    Lowes paints her romance on a rich, European canvas. With each brush stroke, the reader becomes more entwined with each character.
    – Joann Keder, author, The Something That Happened in Pepperville
     
    Blending the oppression of war with finding new love, (this) is an intriguing work of romance and life, very much recommended.
    – Midwest Book Review
     
    … has got to be one of the most beautiful love stories I’ve read in a long time. I found myself wanting to hate some of the characters along the way, only to find myself loving them even more as their lives took them through World War I and into the beginning of World War II. Ladies...this is a must-read book.
    – Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat
     
     
     

STRUMMIN’ THE BANJO MOON
     
     
    Joyce Keller Walsh
     
    Nineteen year-old Juanna Mae DelRio Lottery was abandoned by her husband and foreclosed out of her house in South Jersey.  Left without any resources except for an old Buick, $264, and her own grit, she and Dell—her five-year-old daughter—moved their belongings into the car and drove to a secluded spot deep in the pinewoods. Juanna planned to stay there until she saved enough travel money to go home to her mother in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. But she made a mistake by applying for food stamps and now they have to leave right away because the Social Service is about to swoop down and take Dell into foster care . . . and if Juanna hadn’t lied about her age, they might even take her, too.
    She should have known better, for as her mother always says, “The road to hell is paved with government intentions.”
    Like Huckleberry Finn’s adventures on the river, Juanna’s adventures on the road thrust her into a world of oddball characters and precarious situations.
    Her humorous, moving, and sometimes tragic journey spans thirty years and two continents, and often tests her belief that everything that happens has a purpose and a