The Lady Fugitive

By Ada Brownell

Description:

How does a respected elocutionist become a face on a wanted poster?
Jenny Louise Parks escapes from the coal bin, and her abusive uncle offers a handsome reward for her return. Because he is a judge, he will find her or he won’t inherit her parents’ ranch.
Determination to remain free grips Jenny, especially after she meets William and there’s a hint of romance. But while peddling household goods and showing a Passion of the Christ moving picture, he discovers his father’s brutal murder.
Will Jenny avoid the bounty hunters? Can she forgive the person who turns her in? Will she find peace, joy and love?

Book Takeaway:

Even when life is difficult, God directs our paths and through Him we can find joy and peace and even exceptional love.

Why the author wrote this book:

AUTHOR’S NOTE
My grandmother was an elocutionist who performed her original poems and songs on stage in Colorado when she was a teenager. Among those was a humorous poem based on the nursery rhyme, “Old Mother Hubbard,” and with a little smile, Grandma recited it until she was in her nineties. (The Old Mother Hubbard poem contained in this book is not that poem.)
Grandma wrote a song, “Rocky Mountain Columbine,” that was in the running for the Colorado state song. She loved to play the piano and sing the tune up until her death.
I never met Grandfather, but he did travel about the country in his youth showing one of the first Passion of the Christ moving picture shows created. My brother has the reel.
Yet The Lady Fugitive is the story of Jenny Louise Parks and William O’Casey, created from my imagination. They, all characters and events in this book are fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.