It's 1952 and in the small town of Yoakum, Texas, Tessa Louise Carter-a quirky, sassy, back-talking nine-year-old-finds herself torn between her deeply religious but foul-mouthed grandmother and her beautiful bed-hopping mother.
Tessa doesn't have many friends and takes solace from talking with the ghosts of her dead great-grandmother and great-aunt-which doesn't sit well with her mother or grandmother.
What Tessa wants and needs more than anything is a father figure, but the men her mother brings home are either mean and cruel or are totally uninterested in the musings of a nine-year-old. When her mother becomes pregnant by the local pastor, he flees, and out of convenience she marries yet another of her men friends. Tessa is miserable and is sent back to live with her grandmother.
When Tessa finds a human skeleton, half-buried in the mud outside her grandmother's home, the family's ghastly dark secret is revealed. Tessa becomes haunted by the spirit of her great-grandfather, which won't leave her alone-but her nightmare is only just beginning...
It's 1952 and in the small town of Yoakum, Texas, Tessa Louise Carter-a quirky, sassy, back-talking nine-year-old-finds herself torn between her deeply religious but foul-mouthed grandmother and her beautiful bed-hopping mother.
Tessa doesn't have many friends and takes solace from talking with the ghosts of her dead great-grandmother and great-aunt-which doesn't sit well with her mother or grandmother.
What Tessa wants and needs more than anything is a father figure, but the men her mother brings home are either mean and cruel or are totally uninterested in the musings of a nine-year-old. When her mother becomes pregnant by the local pastor, he flees, and out of convenience she marries yet another of her men friends. Tessa is miserable and is sent back to live with her grandmother.
When Tessa finds a human skeleton, half-buried in the mud outside her grandmother's home, the family's ghastly dark secret is revealed. Tessa becomes haunted by the spirit of her great-grandfather, which won't leave her alone-but her nightmare is only just beginning...
A fictitious journey of an exceptional female and her adventurous spirit. Allow 'Tessa' to share with you a tormented yet wondrous life of failures and success. Conquer the life of poverty and then...
"In this family drama, the struggles and triumphs of life are laid bare. The reality and honesty will touch you. Lisbeth Thom has delivered a delicious bedtime read, as effective as coffee and...
"Extremely Well-Written" - Indian Country Today. WINNER, BRONZE MEDAL, 2013 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS. Volume I of two in the Medicine Valley Series. A strong-hearted Yakama Indian girl and a...
It's Tessa and Weston's first Christmas together, and Tessa is determined to make it the best holiday ever. But when her estranged mother shows up with a suitcase and plans to stay for two weeks,...
She's hiding from a dangerous threat.He's hiding from women altogether.When life puts them right next door to each other, will he have any idea what he's gotten himself into?Tessa and her...
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