Farewell Stormy Acres

By Tamara Eden Huie

PROLOGUE


Harrison, a farmer, and Lisa, an attorney had been in love for quite some time, but Lisa was too proud to be a farmers wife. She eventually married an attorney who worked in her fathers law firm, but he was physically and emotionally cruel to Lisa. They divorced, and he left Des Moines as the firm didnt want a scandal.
Harrison married Mary Taylor. They had a son named Jacob, but like Lisa and Carter, they eventually divorced.
In this novel, you will discover who fathered Lisas daughter, and if Lisa and Harrison ever found happiness together.
As you read through the pages, you will be introduced to love, heartbreak, death, betrayal, marriage, divorce and even murder.
You will learn about Buddy Hicks, an arsonist, who burns farm buildings out of revenge.
The author sincerely hopes you will enjoy reading the pages of this short novel.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781479741748

Tamara Eden Huie

Tamara (Tammy) Eden Huie, author of "Return to Stormy Acres," and a previous novel, "Stormy Acres," was born and raised in Monticello, Iowa, a farm community of approximately 3,500 residents. She actually lived at Stormy Acres, the Eden family homestead. When Tammy was a young girl living at Stormy Acres, she used to read stories to her younger siblings, and enjoyed writing. After graduating from high school in Monticello, she studied at a business school in Omaha, Nebraska, and took classes at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and Clayton University in Morrow, Georgia. She has lived in Locust Grove, Georgia, since 1990.

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Farewell Stormy Acres

Tamara Eden Huie

Copyright © 2012 by Tamara Eden Huie.

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Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1 Farewell Stormy Acres

Chapter 2 Kankakee, Illinois

Chapter 3 1983

Chapter 4 Des Moines, Iowa

Chapter 5 Stormy Acres

Chapter 6 Monticello, Iowa

Chapter 7 Scotch Grove, Iowa

Chapter 8 Stormy Acrestwo Of Harrison’s Pets

Chapter 9 Monticello, Iowachristmas 1984

Chapter 10 Stormy Acres

Chapter 11 Florida And Stormy Acres

Chapter 12 Center Junction

Chapter 13 Des Moines, Iowa

Chapter 14 Rural Monticello

Chapter 15 Stormy Acres

Chapter 16 Kankakee Stormy Acres

Chapter 17 Stormy Acres

Chapter 18 Stormy Acres

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21 Des Moines, Iowa

Chapter 22 Des Moines, Iowa

Epilogue

Author’s Autobiography

DEDICATION

STORMY ACRES AT JONES COUNTY IS DEDICATED

TO MY TWO GRANDMOTHERS:

Emma Catherine Ahlrichs Eden

November 9, 1892—July 16, 1991

and

Jessie Belle Haves Hoag

November 12, 1890—June 27, 1965

(I loved them both)

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PROLOGUE

HARRISON, A FARMER, and Lisa, an attorney had been in love for quite some time, but Lisa was too proud to be a farmer’s wife. She eventually married an attorney who worked in her father’s law firm, but he was physically and emotionally cruel to Lisa. They divorced, and he left Des Moines as the firm didn’t want a scandal.

Harrison married Mary Taylor. They had a son named Jacob, but like Lisa and Carter, they eventually divorced.

In this novel, you will discover who fathered Lisa’s daughter, and if Lisa and Harrison ever found happiness together.

As you read through the pages, you will be introduced to love, heartbreak, death, betrayal, marriage, divorce and even murder.

You will learn about Buddy Hicks, an arsonist, who burns farm buildings out of revenge.

The author sincerely hopes you will enjoy reading the pages of this short novel.

S T O R M Y A C R E S

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CHAPTER 1

Farewell Stormy Acres

1982

AFTER HARRISON’S WIFE, Mary, left him and Stormy Acres, it was two weeks before she would speak to him. She was staying with Cindy Prull, the vocal music teacher at the high school. Harrison called Cindy’s telephone number numerous times, but Cindy always told him that Mary didn’t want to talk to him. Mary was still in love with Harrison, and pregnant with his child, but he had hurt her, and she wasn’t ready to forgive and forget. Not yet.

It was on Wednesday, November 17, 1982, when Harrison decided to wait outside the high school where Mary was the band director, in an attempt to get her to talk to him, He waited until the students had left the grounds either by riding a bus, or by car, and then, when he saw Mary leave the building, he waited until she was almost to her car before he approached her.

Mary, please, wait, I’d like to talk to you. Harrison said as he walked behind Mary as she opened her car door.

It had started to snow. Harrison could see the brisk wind pulling at Mary’s long hair, and noticed her eyelashes were white where the snowflakes gently covered them.

It’s cold. Get in the car, but be careful not to sit on the clarinet and sheet music on the seat, she said.

Harrison opened the passenger side of the car, and carefully moved the clarinet and sheet music to the back seat.

How have you been feeling? I mean because of the pregnancy? Harrison asked awkwardly.

Tired, she answered.

Harrison had