Smithridge

The Bessie Smithridge Journals and Letters Investigation

When Jack Alvin Smithridge received a package of journals and a small stack of letters written by his late wife Bessie Sue Lighthouse – Smithridge through mail, Jack doesn’t pay any attention to them and stores them in his home office on a bookshelf.

A few days later, Jack’s youngest granddaughter Jeridana Smithridge while cleaning her grandfather’s office finds the three journals and the small stack of letters on Jack’s office bookshelf, but before she can read them, her mother Dana Van Owen – Smithridge grabs them out of her daughter’s hands and threatens to have her arrested if she makes any kind of attempt to read the letters and the journals.

Question is: Why? Why all the fuss over the journals and the letters when her grandfather clearly doesn’t seem to mind if anyone finds them?

As fate would have it, the more Jeridana tries to read the letters and journals, the more determined Dana threatens to have her arrested for doing so.

While her curiosity grows, so does her determination to find out exactly what is the information that is hidden inside those journals and letters.

As her determination grows stronger and stronger, an idea pops into her head. Jeridana decides to conduct a Smithridge Family History Investigation with the intention of writing s novel based on exactly what is inside those letters and journals.

The fact that they seem to contain taboo knowledge of the Smithridge Family History makes Jeridana even that much more determined to discover the family’s secrets that her mother is obviously trying her very best to hide – no matter how much they might shock her.

At the very top of her list of Smithridge Family members to start her Investigation is her father’s oldest sister and Bessie’s only twin daughter Bessie Sue Smithridge – Lincolnshire. After Bessie Sue, it’s onto Uncle Theodore Smithridge and his son and her eldest cousin Mark Smithridge; and then, her Aunt Candice Smithridge – Banner; and then her other Aunt Eliza Jane Smithridge – Fordham and her cousins Eddie, Lonnie, Sherry, Drake, Sean and Bessie oKate Smithridge.

Although Jeridana wants to question her grandfather Jack Smithridge, Dana forbids it and threatens to have her arrested if she goes anywhere near grandfather. Jack is in a nursing home, thanks to Dana, and is considered too weak and way out of realism to even be considered for a family related visit much less an interview.

 

Katarina

Discovery of a twin brother and her new husband’s dark secret turns a woman’s life into a living hell.

 

Katarina (Story)

Katarina Tate had just turned twenty-one years old the day she  discovered she had a twin brother who lived in the Florida Keys.

It was also the day of her wedding to businessman Joey Strafford.

Although she longed to go to the Florida Keys to meet her twin brother, Katarina knew she had to first get through her wedding and honeymoon; and then try and find a way of getting to the Florida Keys to meet her twin brother.

But all too soon, Katarina discovered Joey’s true reason for marrying her & it is not pleasant.

Shortly after moving into their own house, Katarina finds herself at the hands of a very disturbed man when she is locked up in a bedroom suite.

 

 

Storm Tragedies

On the night of one of the worst thunderstorms in Morgan County’s history, two tragedies occurred on the estate of George Walton’s.

The first tragedy occurred when two of their horses got spooked by lightning, jumped the fence, ran out onto the highway and got struck by a semi and was instantly killed.

The second tragedy occurred when during the mid morning hours Millie Walton, eldest daughter and second to the eldest child, suddenly fell ill and passed away on the way to the hospital.

 

Leandra’s Christmas Party

Leandra Colliver plated the fried chicken and bowled the mashed potatoes and gravy; and then retrieved the scalloped corn and dinner rolls from out of the oven.  She set everything on the kitchen – dining room counter.

Just then Melanie Colliver, Leandra’s youngest daughter, emerged from the hall stairs.

“Just in time, Melanie,” Leandra said. “You can put the Christmas plates at the end of the counter.”

“Yes, mom.” Melanie answered.