Bøger af Melissa Powell Gay

When she gets a call claiming her eighty-two-year old father is selling drugs to the locals, Iris Lee, an unemployed bank executive, is forced to abandon the real world and return to the land time and style forgot, her hometown. In a quest to uncover the history of an odd broach she finds among her mother's things, Iris is reacquainted with Mt Pleasant, Virginia, and its entertaining, sometimes odd, inhabitants. The mystery of the broach, a plot to take over her father's properties, and a hidden family secret keep Iris pining for the good old, back-stabbing days of her past corporate life. While facing the loss of her identity, Iris struggles to repair the rocky relationship with her father and to gain his trust and love before it's too late. When Are You Leaving is a story about letting go of the past, accepting change and following it into the clear blue unknown.

Every Now and Then is a dual narrative of events which come before and after Iris Lee, 47, discovers a valuable objet d'art - a French military medallion - in the pocket of her mother's secondhand mink coat.It's mid-June. Iris must endure humidity laden heat in her parent's un-air-conditioned house in the company of her moody teenage cousin who has a penchant for stealing and her mother who sometimes arrives for breakfast in her eighty-year-old birthday suit.The valuable medallion goes missing. As Iris solicits help from Mt Pleasant's residents to locate it, she learns how her recently deceased father acquired the name "Mr. Henry" and why her Uncle Ben and his family moved to California never to return to Virginia. Hard truths about the Lee family surface as Iris prods others to reveal a past she never knew. A funny story with a teary-eyed twist, Every Now and Then contains the key elements for a fine Southern tale: family skeletons and redemption.

A funny story with a teary-eyed twist, Every Now & Then contains the key elements for a fine Southern tale: family skeletons and redemption. Iris Lee discovers a valuable object d'art in the pocket of her mother's secondhand mink coat. Hard truths about the Lee family surface as Iris prods Mt Pleasant residents to reveal a past she never knew.