What happens when a faithful wife is brutalized in 1893 Mississippi? She can seek neither deserved justice nor revenge. Rescued by her friend Mike Poe, their fateful trek home sets in motion events that tests everyone’s love and faith. Is the love more powerful than lies?
Rose Mary Stiffin’s first novel, “Walk in Bethel” (ISBN 1452838909), is a testimony to her southern roots. Nashville Thompson is the preacher’s wife who considers prayers to be wishes and God to be here on Earth. Nashville and her descendants bear witness to Mississippi’s brutality and pockets of equality. The brutality is not confined to Nashville’s near rape; there are the lynching of a young father-to-be, the hanging of Nashville’s rapists; abuse at a luncheon counter. The equality is represented by Mike Poe, her rescuer and friend; by her loving and always supportive husband, as well as her many descendants in the five generations.
Robert Dale Sutton blows into the sleepy Mississippi Delta hamlet with a past that only Nashville’s daughter Allene discovers: his hand in a double murder as revenge for his sister’s death. These three families coalesce and set in motion actions, allegations, and speculated secrets that follow them to their grave.
“Walk in Bethel” is an intimate intrusion into the lives of two Mississippi families, the Thompsons and the Suttons,” says science thriller author Madelyn Lorber. “Their stories are so powerfully told, one feels both the gentleness of complicated love and the physical pain of traumatic decisions.”
Set in the late 1800’s, the reader eagerly embraces well-developed characters like Nashville Thompson, her husband the reverend Carl Thompson, their friend Mike Poe, and an ancillary, yet hardly minor cast of connected relationships.
“You may want to put the book down, if just for a moment, but Rose Mary Stiffin’s story will not allow it.”
To place orders for “Walk in Bethel,” or to arrange interviews or book signings, contact:
Rose Mary Stiffin, PhD
The Left-handed Author, LLC
19002 NW 54th Court
Miami Gardens, Florida 33055
(305) 625 – 4758
(305) 332 – 7179 (cell)
You may order directly from Amazon.com paperback or Kindle version).
SOURCE: The Left-handed Author, LLC
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