A Glimpse into Ladies Uncover a Secret

Have you missed the ladies from Norwood Street in Applegate, Ohio?

Sugar Bowersox now lives in the Baltimore area with husband Dunger and enjoys being a mother to three girls and wife to a professional football coach.

Lily-Rose Pembrick still lives on Norwood Street, enjoying the life she found after leaving Lincoln, Nebraska, and Pembrick Transportation behind.

In Ladies Uncover a Secret (Elk Lake Publications, due out Fall, 2o22) we find Fiona Kasey, now Kasey-Boyer, married, pregnant, and living in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

So what’s the problem?

Fiona is struggling with a nagging thought–Why doesn’t she feel worthy of love?

In Ladies Uncover a Secret, the three friends get together again and begin to unravel the secrets of Fiona’s past. They discover lies the Kasey family kept for years. Will the answers to the revealed secrets strengthen Fiona’s chance at finding peace—or shatter it?

Ready for an unofficial glimpse? Check out the first (unofficial) chapter:

Want to see how it all began?

Can a woman on the run find herself again?

Ladies of the Fire brought us to the late 1960s as we met the newly-widowed Lily-Rose Pembrick reeling as she fled Lincoln, Nebraska, with her children. Only taking the cash from the house safe and what she could get her hands on at the family bank, she left the recently-inherited and successful Pembrick Transportation company behind.

Exhausted from driving all night, she stopped in Applegate, Ohio, and decided to start a new life on Norwood Street. There, she met 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 enjoyed Lily-Rose’s backyard fire pit, where dreams were spoken and secrets revealed. As they embraced a kinship they never would have sought, Lily-Rose began thinking her past could finally be laid to rest—until someone ended up dead.