Ladies on a Mission

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Life isn’t always as it seems

It’s 1984, and the lives are full for the Ladies of the Fire. Fiona Casey-Boyd still lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio with husband and almost-teen, Sugar-Rose. Lily-Rose Pembrick has been enjoying her empty nest on Norwood Street in Applegate, Ohio since her children returned to Lincoln, Nebraska.  Sugar Bowersox and her family returned to hometown Trotter, Kentucky so Dungar could be Trotter College’s inaugural head football coach.

But full lives aren’t necessarily lives fulfilled.

When Sugar’s world falls apart in Trotter, she turns to the friends who know her best–the ladies of the fire.

Fiona and Lily-Rose travel to Trotter, Kentucky, to support Sugar, but are shocked by what they find. And Sugar works to keep them in the dark with what has haunted her life for years.

Will Sugar’s past life in Trotter finally catch up with her?

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Where it all began

Ladies of the Fire–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.

 

Her family has hidden secrets. Will she ever learn the truth?

It’s 1972 and Fiona Kasey-Boyd is living her dream life in Shaker Heights, Ohio but something’s wrong. Married to a wonderful man, eight months pregnant with his child, she’s wracked with sadness. Is she suffering from the baby blues, or is it something darker?

In a quick trip to her home town before the baby arrives, Fiona reconnects with her friends Lily-Rose and Sugar, leaning on them for strength. The three of them search for answers to Fiona’s questions. But they are stonewalled at every turn with evasion and silence.

Only the power of their friendship can help Fiona face the darkness of her family’s secrets—secrets whose answers can heal her heart … or shatter it.