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A Family Matter by Marsha Briscoe

Salina Graves, recently married to a man twice her age, faces an agonizing truth--the criminal betrayal of her father by her husband, Lyman. But the truth of that betrayal lies in her deceased father's journal. Her mother’s posthumous cry for family vindication leads Salina on a desperate search for the mysteriously missing journal, but her search is thwarted when her tyrannical husband is critically injured.

When her attractive, but errant stepson, Mick Graves, returns home to tend his comatose father, Salina and Mick are drawn to one another. Warring with her illicit feelings for her stepson who now shares the ancestral home in eastern Kentucky where Lyman's Poseidon Coal Company fuels the economy, is Salina's determination to carry out her plan of vindication. Will she be able to find her father's journal, absolve her family name, and survive the metaphorical storm surrounding her relationship with her stepson?


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Marsha has been involved in some form with reading and writing most all her life. Having taught a variety of college English courses, spanning the range of composition to British literature and world literature, she is a published poet and essayist. But she did not try her hand at writing a novel until the mid 1990's when the idea for her reincarnation romance, A Still Point in Time, came to her in a dream. From this dream emerged a haunting and deep-seated conviction that the characters she created in A Still Point in Time had indeed known one another in the past.

Soon after she completed her first novel, the idea of re-visiting the ancient Greek Phaedra myth struck Marsha one day as she was teaching, in one of her college world lit courses, Racine's 17th century play entitled Phaedra. Thus sprang the beginnings of her second novel, A Family Matter, which brings the rudiments of an ancient myth into a 1990's eastern Kentucky setting.

Senior Editor at Whiskey Creek Press, Marsha is a member of Authors Unlimited, All Star Scribes, LeditSlip, and World Romance Writers. The proud mother of three grown sons, she lives in Kentucky USA with her lifetime soul-mate husband and three dogs. In her spare time, she enjoys tennis, golf, and piano.

Visit Marsha’s author website at www.marshabriscoe.com
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  • counterclockwise
    October 6, 2005
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    This looks so intriguing! Can't wait to get swept up into this story!

  • moonprincess
    August 14, 2005
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    i like the sound of this book....it sounds like something i would enjoy reading..suspese,betrayl....sounds interesting!
    Thanks for sharing
    Cassie

  • Granny Goose silver member
    July 31, 2005
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    I definetly want to read this book, it sounds right up my alley, the kind of book I wont want to put down until I'm finished reading from beginning to end.

    Dee
  • memori layne
    July 28, 2005
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    I'm interested in the depth the writer goes with the dynamics between the stepson and heroin. I don't like sick or dying characters, maybe if he is evil..I will ahve to see...Author sounds like a very successfl person with a full life; that does tempt one to read her works, due to the complete fiction of the story.

  • Ava Noire silver member
    July 28, 2005
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    It sounds like my kind of book. The kind you start reading and just can't put down. I think this is great of you to spend your time promoting others. Marsha sounds like a very talented lady. I will have to check her out.

    good work here in putting this together.


  • Musimwa
    July 28, 2005
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    oh this seems to be an interesting book, we composed and sensible. I would love to have a copy

  • Unbridled1
    July 26, 2005
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    This sounds extremely intriguing! I am really glad Danna did this list...so much gets missed when things are not brought to the attention of us all. Wonderful! and congratulations


    UB


  • Danna Hobart
    July 26, 2005
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    Just follow the link in the middle of the page to Whiskey Creek Press. Ordering details are there.
    Edited on Jul 26, 10:46 because ''.

  • Gemini1983
    July 26, 2005
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    I am very interested in this story. Where can I find it?

  • Yossarian
    July 26, 2005
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    There's a French movie that has a plot similar to that...it's in two parts. Can't remember for the life of me. I digress. I'll have to check this out, no?

    Cheers,

    Yossarian
    Edited on Jul 26, 4:34 because ''.

  • Ben Stickle
    July 26, 2005
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    Congrats!

    Well, I'm intrigued. I'm probably hooked to tell the truth. The synopsis pulled me in, and now I want MORE!!!

  • EeyoreUK
    July 26, 2005
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    This book sounds really good. Well done for getting published, and thanks for sharing your good news with the rest of us. Keep writing and keep smiling.

  • Amicus2K8
    July 24, 2005
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    I agree with the Rabbit above, we struggle, we write, we publish and struggle again to get read and reviewed. No sane and rational person would ever choose to be an author or a writer.

    Interesting background for the author, educated, deep in ancient culture, would be interesting to read how she brings greek mythology into eastern kentucky (been there)

    regards, amicus...


  • ricochet rabbit
    July 24, 2005
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    Thanks for the info. I'll be sure to check her out. This isn't usually the kind of literature that appeals to me, but I am always in the business of helping out my fellow artists. Everyone needs support.

  • July 24, 2005
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    Hi again, Libra Moon! If you want to read the reviews of my A FAMILY MATTER, there are tons of them on my author website www.marshabriscoe.com
    There are also a lot of review excerpts of this book at the Whiskey Creek Press website: www.whiskeycreekpress.com Just type in my name or the book's title and that takes you to my Author Cart where you can purchase the book. The chapter excerpt is there along with several review snippets. This book is also a WCP "Reader's Choice" in addition to being a Publisher's Pick.
    It, too, like my A STILL POINT IN TIME, is listed in the Fictionwise Top Ten Highest Rated Books for the Whiskey Creek Press books sold at Fictionwise.
    Marsha

  • Alice Anesthetized
    July 24, 2005
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    amazing. and really made me want to... i don't know how to explain it. fuzzy feelings of hate... crazy flying monkeys of death... oh, i just want to buy the book, i get it now!
  • Libra Moon
    July 24, 2005
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    Wow, this reminds me of a real life story, but it was a nephew not a stepson, and the husband/uncle had passed away. And it is set in the south! You really know how to tempt me!
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