"The sins of the father can cause history to repeat itself many times over."
Reviewed by Lynn Cunningham
Posted October 7, 2013
Contemporary | Paranormal
Kate Krause is thrilled to be newly married to her husband
Joe and able to leave behind a selfish mean tempered
grandmother to live with him on his farm in Iowa. The farm
has been in his family for more than 140 years and carries
much history. She looks forward to working with Joe side by
side on the farm and raising a family there.
Sadly, Kate's excitement is tempered almost from the first
moment she and Joe arrive at his lovely old farmhouse.
There's a surprise waiting for her in that Joe's mother,
Trudy, will also be living with them. This news results in
their first disagreement as husband and wife.
To make matters worse, the two women butt heads almost
instantly. Trudy maintains the beliefs held about women in
the early 1900's. Women during that time were basically
"owned" by the men in their lives. First they had to serve
their fathers, and then they were turned over to their
husbands. Kate comes from a different era and will not be
owned although she's more than willing to do her fair share
of work around the house.
The story of another Krause woman named Hannah is also told
in THE WIDOWS OF BRAXTON COUNTY. It is her story that played
out in the early 1800's and has remained a mystery since
then. Kate becomes very interested in Hannah's story when
tragedy strikes her own life and starts to dig into the
events that plagued Hannah so long ago.
THE WIDOWS OF BRAXTON COUNTY will hold you in its grip from
the first page. It will also take you on a full gamut of
emotions from happiness to outrage to anger and tears.
Prepare to give yourself over to THE WIDOWS OF BRAXTON
COUNTY until you've reached that very last page.
Jess McConkey is also Shirley Damsgaard, author of the
Ophelia and Abby books. While THE WIDOWS OF BRAXTON COUNTY
is a much different type of book than those, you'll still
find the same high quality of writing. This is a fast moving
book in the present and a rather slow crawl to exposing
events in the past. Either way, however, the reader is
presented with a story that will not let you go until the
end of all avenues have been reached.
Whether you like to read while curled up in a porch swing,
lounging on the beach or sitting by a cozy fire, THE WIDOWS
OF BRAXTON COUNTY is the perfect book to get lost in.
SUMMARY
Widows of Braxton County by Jess McConkey is a haunting and suspenseful novel about family secrets and how well we really know the people we love.
Kate is looking forward to starting a new life with her new husband, Joseph Krause. She leaves the big city and moves with him to the Iowa farm that has been in his family for more than 140 years.
Instead of something out of Country Living, Kate finds life on the farm a struggle. She hears gossip from the unfriendly neighbors about the connection between the Krause family and a mysterious death decades before.
As the past creeps into Kate’s present, she’s caught in a web of dangerous, unexplainable events.
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