Ladies of the Fire

By Robin Luftig

Description:

Can a woman on the run find herself again?

The late 1960s sets the newly-widowed Lily-Rose Pembrick reeling as she flees Lincoln, Nebraska with her children. Only taking the cash from the house safe and family bank, she leaves the recently-inherited and successful Pembrick Transportation company behind.

Exhausted from driving all night, she stops in Applegate, Ohio, and decides to start a new life on Norwood Street. There, she meets Fiona Kasey, an African-American no-nonsense housekeeper/companion to an elderly white woman, and Sugar Bowersox a southern spitfire who has lost herself in motherhood.

Together, they enjoy Lily-Rose’s backyard fire pit, where dreams are spoken and secrets revealed. As they embrace a kinship they never would have sought, Lily-Rose begins to think her past can be laid to rest—until someone ends up dead.

When Lily-Roe's past catches up with her, who will be left standing?

Book Takeaway:

When given a chance, there's nothing stronger than the friendship between women.

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Why the author wrote this book:

To let women know ... that women need women.