Lost Daughters

Written by Mary Monroe

Narrated by Diana Luke

Everyone from Louisiana to Florida knows Mama Ruby—a small-town girl who became one of the South’s most notorious and volatile women. Now New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe reveals how the indomitable heroine of her acclaimed classic The Upper Room continues to vex the family she’s left behind.

Mama Ruby has died and Maureen Montgomery is finally taking charge of her own life. With her beautiful teenage daughter, Loretta, by her side, she returns to Florida and settles into a routine any other woman would consider bland. But for Maureen and her brother, Virgil, after Mama Ruby’s hair-trigger temper and murderous ways, bland is good. Yet, Loretta has other ideas …

Set on becoming rich and famous, Loretta convinces Maureen to let her start a modeling career with the help of a Miami photographer. But even as they move in promising new directions, they can’t escape Mama Ruby—including Virgil, who’s concealed one of her most shocking acts for most of his life. To make a future that’s truly hers, Maureen will have to take on a bit of Mama Ruby’s strength, forge new bonds—and face down the past.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: May 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781470347420

Mary Monroe

Mary Monroe is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five novels and six novellas. She is a three-time AALBC bestseller and winner of the AAMBC Maya Angelou Lifetime Achievement Award, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and the J. California Cooper Memorial Award. The daughter of Alabama sharecroppers, she taught herself how to write before going on to become the first and only member of her family to finish high school. She lives in Oakland, California, and loves to hear from her readers via e-mail at [e-mail]. Visit Mary’s website at MaryMonroe.org.

Reviews for Lost Daughters

[Shona M · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It was a nice sequel to the Upper Room and definitely leaves the reader with a sense of completion once done.

[Nicola · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I absolutely loved it. I wanted the story to continue.

[amilligan_13 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This was a new genre for me and I was eager to see what it was like. I found the plot very slow and the character Maureen very weak,and nothing of consequence happened for ages. I kept putting it aside and going back to it hoping I could get into and have the desire to finish; but in the end I gave up.

[aeisen_3 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I have not read "The Upper Room", however, I don't think it was necessary to enjoy the book or get invested in the characters. I thought the story was interesting and I enjoyed reading it, the story had way too many strange coincidences though.

[lavermeer · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Maureen believes she is living a good and happy life. Little does she know that her family members are hiding life-changing secrets from her. As these secrets are gradually revealed, Maureen must decide how she will respond and adapt to challenging circumstances that threaten everything she values.LOST DAUGHTERS is a sequel to 2011's MAMA RUBY. If you liked that book, or if you enjoy contemporary melodrama, you might like this novel. Some of the characters are thoroughly unlikeable, but the author has a firm sense of consequences, justice, and redemption, so people in this book get what's coming to them. An omniscient narrator does much of the telling, underscored by highly dramatic character interactions. The number and scale of troubles the characters in this book experience may test a reader's patience, and the central coincidence of the novel truly defies belief. It is, however, a fast-paced novel of personal adversity and triumph through faith and would make a fair summer-reading selection, particularly for readers drawn to Christian themes.