| "Ruby and the Stargazers" is fresh and
folksy, and touches a plethora of emotional chords. Written with charm
and skill, this heartwarming novel welcomes you into Fireside homes
and businesses, and into the lives of its endearing characters.
Linda Amey, author of the Blair Emerson suspense series
About the Book
Fireside circa 1967 is a small Texas town populated
by quirky characters, hot gossip, Elvis, and cozy down-home Southern
cooking. The local Fireside flavor combines with nostalgic details
from those Flower Power years, as two sisters come of age with Ruby
and Walt, grandparents who don’t act their age and whose love is
legendary. Juliet Cranbourne remains in Fireside as a shopkeeper and
editor of The Fireside Telegraph long after her grandparent’s deaths
and her sister Evangeline’s moving on to big city life. When
Evangeline returns to help Juliet choose a headstone for Walt and
Ruby’s graves, the rift between the sisters dissolves within their
shared memories of growing up on the ranch with their doting
grandparents, eccentric neighbors, farm animals, and each other during
simpler times. Fireside’s allure is in its simplicity as a backdrop to
Southern cooking and superbly vivid characters. In Fireside, people
are loved because of their idiosyncrasies, not in spite of them.
Interwoven threads of the past surface in the tapestry of the present,
as the sisters find that the legacy their grandparents left to them is
one of love and acceptance, of the past, of the here-and-now, and of
each other. Ruby and the Stargazers will give Fireside, Texas a secure place on
the map of small towns that come to life in literature.
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