Shannon Helzer

Rhue's House (eBook, ePUB)

A tale of family, love, and deception.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Coming of age in rural Pennsylvania in the late 1940s, Rhue slides into a heart-warming romance with Thomas when her younger brother Hank, who is considered "odd," makes a connection with recent widower George following the death of his wife and life-long love Maggie. Rhue hesitantly becomes a party to this connection and begins to dislike Maggie when she laments the time that already slipped by without the opportunity to know George because of Maggie's reclusive and socially isolating behaviors. Rhue's father, who became a widower when Hank was born, reluctantly permits the relationship because of the benefits to young Hank. The romance between Rhue and Thomas is not the only one that results from this new connection. Through her relationship with George, Rhue gains access to Maggie's library with its extensive collection of classic literature and an unexpected treasure: Maggie's personal journals covering her entire life experience. Emerging herself into the pages of Maggie's journals, Rhue soon finds that her intense dislike transforms into a deep love for Maggie as she witnesses Maggie maturing into womanhood, reads of how Maggie initially rejected and then accepted the younger George, and revels in the lives of and sympathizes with this aging couple through Maggie's writings about their shared life experiences. However, not everthing in Rhue's life is as perfect as it appears. When Maggie's journals reveal a deep family secret, Rhue discovers that her family has been deceiving her for her entire life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Twin Oars Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798218036133
• Artikelnr.: 65154023

Autorenporträt

Shannon W. Helzer is the Author of Rhue's House and You are too Young. A native of Zanesville Ohio, he attended Norfolk State University in Norfolk Virginia where he earned his bachelor's degree in Physics and, subsequently, his master's degree in Materials Science. Afterwards, he spent several years serving as an Officer in the US Navy. He went on to earn a master's degree in education while teaching at Kutztown University in Kutztown Pennsylvania. He finished his twenty-year teaching career as a high school Physics teacher. He currently resides in the greater Allentown Area and has two grown children.Although a math and science nerd by nature, he has a great love of reading engendered and cultivated by his seventh grade reading teacher. A few years later one of his high school English teachers enhanced and reinforced this love, despite his resistance, with a love of writing. Factor in a life certificate earned by thirty-five years of education through the school of hard knocks and you get a new author.He doesn't have any literary awards and has not made it on any of those lists. That is up to the reader. He is just happy knowing that he can make a person's day a little better by creating good and meaningful stories for them to enjoy. Although, he certainly admits that it would be nice to be on one of those lists!