New Beginnings: Vol. 2
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“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.” ~ Seneca
Sarah Hunter’s past catches up with her when the IRS files criminal charges and FBI agents arrest her and she is – like a thief in the night, swept away to a downtown Chicago jail. Will Sarah ever see the light of day again?
Kent’s Crodin’s world crumbles when he loses everything in a fire. However, his research, generosity, and contribution to the community comes back to him when the community pulls together to help him recover. Will this, too, come under IRS scrutiny and threaten his future?
Wendy Jo Crodin is born to a mother who imagines she will be a little girl to be pampered and taught to be a lady. Wendy, however, is everything but a lady - a tom-boy and a daddy’s girl... whose mischievous antics entertain the town and exasperate her mother. Can Wendy learn to mature and correct her impish ways?
~New Beginnings, the sequel to The Secrets of Clayton County, is a story that stands on its own merit. It opens on Sarah Hunter returning to the small Iowa town to which the IRS had previously sent her – to destroy, all for the sake of making a point of securing revenue for bartering exchanges which were certainly far more cultural than financial transactions. The new beginnings Sarah experiences come one after the other as she leaves a fascinating career and significant other in Chicago – to find her place in a sleepy little Iowa town.
Anna Weber | Literary Strategist
Don Wooldridge
Don Wooldridge enjoys writing in a variety of genres, and avoids vulgarity, or explicit sex in his work. To date he’s written 4 fiction novels, 2 non-fiction novella's, 28 short stories, and 1 memoir telling how he found ways to manage his bipolar disorder over 45 years.COMING SOON:SAMMY MY GUARDIAN ANGEL spring 2019.FRIENDS FOREVER, book 4 of the "Secrets of Clayton County" series, Summer of 2019.You can contact Don at booksbydon@gmail.com.Visit website @ donwooldridgeauthor.com
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Second in Don Wooldridge’s Clayton County novels, New Beginnings feels like several novels in one, and offers something for everyone. There’s romance as Sarah leaves everything she knows to return to the man she once spurned. Scary courtroom and jail-cell drama offers a hint of mystery and investigation. Small-town generosity abounds when disaster strikes a small businessman. Intriguing old-school lessons give a fledgling teacher a good old-fashioned chance to try her wings and bring unruly students to order (I did indeed enjoy her lessons, and even learned something about barter and the IRS!). Then there’s the story of a marriage, weathering storms of children who don’t turn out the way mom would like; and the highly intelligent girl who changes from rebel to beauty overnight—but there’s surely more to come.And there is more. Book three is already out there (I checked the internet). And book one, which I haven’t read, will show, I expect, how big-city Sarah was converted into small-town girl, and what led to her leaving her Chicago romance so suddenly.A leisurely trip through the life of a small family, in a small town, in a rather larger world, New Beginnings is a long read, easy to pick up and put down, with enjoyable characters and situations—nothing too harsh, nothing to easy, and everything in its place.Disclosure: I was lucky enough to buy this when it was free.