The Road to Second Chance

✍ Scribed by Toni M. Andrews

• Book ID: 112017320
• Publisher: Toni Andrews
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 244 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Near the small town of Second Chance, West Virginia, in the year 1962, the world appears blissfully simple for two-year-old Laney Mae Martin. However, tragedy strikes when her father, Gil, perishes in a fatal car crash alongside another woman, whose life is also cut short. This shocking event shatters Laney Mae's idyllic existence, leaving her life in disarray. In a fit of humiliation, her mother, Faye, erases every trace of Gil, including cherished photographs, and swears never to utter his name again. Laney Mae and her older brother Neal are uprooted from their familiar surroundings, forced to face an unwelcoming reception, and endure merciless mockery in the suburbs of Washington, DC, where they are branded as "hillbillies."

**The turmoil intensifies as a deranged housekeeper and later an abusive stepfather inflict lasting emotional scars upon Laney Mae. Neglected and lonely, the young girl spirals further away from reality. Seeking...