Escape from Way Station Manor

By C. L. Snapp

Now more than eighty years later, another dreamer Anthony Pennington finds himself in Way Station with a strategy of bringing hope and renewal to a community riddled with abandoned railways and buildings. Coincidence? Fate? Or the faint whisper asking, "are we there yet?"

Born in 1898, in the sparsely settled town of Senora, Kansas, Lily was the only daughter of a wealthy mercantile shopkeeper. At the age of nineteen, she was the youngest schoolteacher appointed in the State of Kansas, and with a reputation of being full of piss and vinegar.

She lived in a time when it was illegal for women to smoke in public, lynching was a form of punishment, and life expectancy was forty-five. A time when the average worker earned thirteen dollars for a sixty-hour workweek, and the streets of New York filled with abandoned, neglected, and orphaned children. A quarter of a million of them as reports of abuse, neglect, and inhuman treatment of the children in public orphanages filled the airwaves.

Her dream was to change a broken system. Will she be successful, or will she be just another broken attempt?

• Language: English
• Publisher: C. L. Snapp
• Release date: Jun 6, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311071156

C. L. Snapp

Born in Colorado, my family migrated from Germany and settled in parts of Virginia that would become the state of Kentucky. I live in the Bluegrass State of Kentucky, wife, mother and grandmother. I turned to writing for healing after the tragic loss of our twenty-two year old son. I battle severe fibromyalgia and lupus and use writing to stay connected to the world around me. As the days pass, I struggle to understand the depths of life, death, survival, accomplishment, failure, sorrow and contentment. I will be sharing some of the most intimate details of my life through my writings. My writings are meant to touch the heart, light the path and encourage the reader not to surrender. My main purpose for writing is to heal, if not others, myself. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your journey. I have written When Momma's Cry, the Darkside of Yearning-Grief After the Loss of a Child, and Escape from Way Station Manor. I am exploring short story romance fiction under the pen name Jade Hamilton.

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