Her Lover's Legacy
It was the second-worst day of Malcolm Braddock's life. The first was three days ago when he received the news about his father's fatal car crash. Ever since then, he'd been walking around numb and talking in a daze.Now, Malcolm tightened his grip around his mother's shoulders and watched the ever-graceful Evelyn Braddock draw her chin higher and somehow keep her shimmering tears from streaking down her ageless face. A forty-year marriage over without a single warning.
His baby sister, Shondra, was another story.
Though to a stranger's eye she looked calm, cool and collected, anyone who knew Shawnie wouldn't have missed the dull listlessness of her brown eyes or the dark circles that now seemed to ring them permanently, the puffy red nose rubbed raw from endless wiping. She was falling apart.
Malcolm ground his molars together, anger and helplessness finally penetrating ... read full excerpt from Her Lover's Legacy ebook