This historical fiction is based on the real life story of Doris Marie Linney Moore, born in 1919.
It is a tribute to her quest to know her parents and her ability to become the mother of nine children.
It is a character driven tale with real people from the Johnson and Linney families:
Teddy, an awkward, physically challenged bachelor with a crumpled straw Stetson and a wide smile,
Myrtle, Dorisβs lonely, creative, melancholy mother
and a cast of uncles and brothers not knowing how to handle the emotions that death provokes for their charge, Doris, and for themselves.
Doris's search for her parents' identities delivers a family saga beginning in the 1700's, but always leading back to the same breezy slope facing the Aransas Bay. Uncle Jamie's bay house, set among the bent oaks on the Lamar Peninsula is where she can watch approaching storms and say goodbye to her brothers.
It's also where she can eavesdrop and discover the worries of her uncles.
In this work of historical fiction, Doris reveals the circumstances of the death of her father as told by the sons who witnessed it, but for some reason her uncles seemed to believe he deserved his dramatic demise.
Phyllis H. Moore is a native Texan living on Galveston Island.
Phyllis' writings are character driven and she draws inspiration from her years as a social worker in the rural area and seven years of owning and operating a bed and breakfast in a small historic town.