Artemis sits by her mother's bedside as she is dying of cancer and reads her diary, a practice of journaling that had started when Melody was eight years old. Her mother had never seemed like that much of a complicated person, full of love and compassion, and the center of the world in terms of family and connection.
However, one small entry sends Artemis into a discovery of truths and painful memories, and into the darkness where the spirit of a little boy had grown into one of vengeance and sorrow.
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August 15, 1939
Johnny Barton pulled my hair today. I had a knife and I stuck it in him. He fell down and didn’t move no more.
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They were just three little girls in a world that was dying.
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Daddy was the first to go, his body giving into the virus that had changed so many in the world.
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Mommy had gone mushroom hunting, and had never come back.
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Grandpa and Trevor had gone away to find resources, and they too had never come back.
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Maddie, the oldest, was only 10 when Gemmie died, her body unable to fight off the 'monia, and that had been the worst - because three little girls had to take care of her body so it wouldn't come back on them.
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Because the dead kept coming back on them...
Adelaide worried that her four year old daughter Genevieve had not yet shown any signs of the magic that was in the blood of the Brodeur women. She hoped that just a little nudge through a batch of magically enhanced cookies would help her find her way.
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Instead, it helped something old and dark find its way into her home and to her daughter.
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Read the Christmas novelette to prepare for an adventure that spans generations that will be released in five novels in The Women of Brodeur, starting with Mom's Lasagna.
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Mom's Lasagna
The First Book in the Saga
The Women of Brodeur
Coming Soon
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