Excerpts from Carry Patch
Laury Anne Camfield, a corporate lawyer living in Chicago, comes home to Fairfax, Illinois for the Christmas holidays. Her nightmares intact, she has difficulty in separating the sordid past from the present. Haunted by memories of violence during her childhood, she fought the demons that kept parading her mind.
Her father, Charles Camfield, of Cherokee ancestry is the Chief of Police in the southern Illinois town. Her mother, involved with a man of questionable means, shared an atrocious past with Laury Anne during her childhood.
A brief love affair with a law student, who later became an Appellate Court Judge in Fairfax, became a sensual tug of war with Laury Annes emotions and explosive past.
Her Grandmother Angeline Camfield, matriarch of the family, became Laury Annes salvation. Even after her death, Laury Anne was still spiritually empowered with protection from her grandmother, a natural acceptance as part of her ancestral Indian heritage.
Going home for the holidays was an attempt to recapture some of the happier memories she had. However, she found herself plunged into an enigmatic maze of murders and mayhem. Deceptions underfoot presented great pain and worry to Laury Annes psychic when pink roses kept appearing in her visual consciousnessa symbolization of a past love or a past hatred.
A precarious existence occurred. She was forced to face the ghosts from her past with determination, to dispel them with unrelenting pursuit, and finally bringing a conclusion to her perilous past.
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