Ro Grandee is the perfect Texas housewife. She's determined to be nothing like her long-missing mother, the one who left her with only a heap of old novels and her father's fists for company, so Ro keeps quiet and takes her husband's punches like a lady. But Ro wasn't always this way. Underneath her pastel skirts and hidden bruises lies Rose Mae Lolley, teenaged spitfire, Alabama heartbreaker, and a crack shot with a pistol. Rose Mae is resurrected when a gypsy's tarot cards foretell doom for dutiful Ro: her handsome husband is going to kill her. Unless she kills him first.
Armed with only her wit, her pawpy's ancient .45, and her dog Fat Gretel, Rose Mae hightails it out of Texas. In a journey that is by turns harrowing and exhilarating, she uncovers long buried truths about her family and herself, running from the man who will never let her go, on a mission to find the mother who did.
Joshilyn Jackson's book had me hooked from the beginning. I loved Rose Mae and turned the pages as fast as I could to find out how she got to where she found herself and what happens when she decides she's had enough. I look forward to more from Joshilyn!
3 comments:
I so loved this book!
I can't wait to read this. It's on my towering shelf - one day...
Hope you're having a great weekend with your family Nise.
Excellent...because I have this one too that I haven't gotten to yet!
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