Secret Places

An Oklahoma tornado is on a collision course with Jessie Howell and all she loves. But if she can survive the destruction, she can survive anything; so things this vivacious seventeen-year-old. Yet, another storm threatens her and her sister Janie as they deal with the challenges of caring for their mentally ill mother, their three younger siblings, and their father. Amid the chaos, secrets stalk about in the shadows of Mt. Webster: secrets that will do more damage than any tornado in the lives of the small Mt. Webster farming community.
Kenneth Morgen is a hard-working young farmer battling the Oklahoma weather to build a profitable farming business. Enough to provide for a wife and family he hopes will some day be his. And lately...he finds himself drawn to a certain spunky, petite, young farm girl.
When Jessie has a shocking encounter with the ruggedly handsome Morgen, and finds herself unexpectedly thrown into his arms, can she believe that her dreams still might come true? Could Kenneth be the source of the safe place her heart has longed for? Of will the revelation of shocking secrets place a chasm between them that neither can cross?
Secret Places is a mixture of the rollicking antics of the teenage sisters and their friends and family, and the real-life trials of scraping a living from the sometimes unforgiving red soil of southwest Oklahoma in the early 1900's. It is a story of the human heart and its search for the secret place it can finally call home.