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High Cotton Country
High Cotton Country
High Cotton Country
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High Cotton Country

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In High Cotton Country, Cazzie Randle's world shatters when she learns answers to secrets that have haunted her all her life. Knowing is more costly than she could have imagined and now she is left to pick up the pieces. If she can.

 

Growing up in a small town, Cazzie is shunned and demeaned because of the stigma of a mother who committed an unspeakable act of horror and a father who abandoned her to be raised by a cold, abusive grandparent. Betrayed by her first love, Hink, and then again by Loy, the man she marries, she is left at a young age, destitute and alone with three children.

 

Desperate to provide for her family, she makes an alliance with Nine Bellew, a black woman with three small girls of her own. The friendship and loyalty that develops between the two helps Cazzie turn her life around and achieve success and recognition beyond her wildest dreams. But hiding inside is the little girl always haunted by secrets of the past until the fateful day she is called to her dying father's bedside and demands answers only he can give. Nothing could have prepared her for the truth.

 

LanguageEnglish
PublisherEmbers Press
Release dateApr 13, 2019
ISBN9780998028149
High Cotton Country
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Leta McCurry

Tale-spinner. Revealer of secrets. A dog’s best friend. Cornbread and fried okra country girl. Lives on the Oregon Coast and enjoys writing, reading, a large, fun-loving family, her Min-Pin dog, Daisy Mae, the open road on a motorcycle (trike - as a passenger), good food, and travel Favorite destination: Ireland.

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