Somebody Pick Up My Pieces

Six months ago her three daughters walked out and left Charlotte Rodgers to fend for herself in her small home in Murphy, Kansas. Charlotte is left resentful and bitter toward her children, Clarice, Connie, and especially Camille, for leaving her to face the memories of a painful past. What Charlotte doesn't know is that the past is hot on her heels and will soon catch up with her once again

Justin and Clarice Braxton are struggling to hold on to what's left of their marriage. Justin's affair has taken its toll on their union, and Clarice, known as Reesy, has to decide once and for all if she can finally forgive him and move forward, or if the lure of giving Justin a dose of his own medicine is too tempting to ignore. But is Reesy being honest, telling herself that she's cheating on her husband to teach him a lesson, or are her feelings for her new lover more real than any she's ever had for her husband?

Camille Rodgers has lived her whole life under Charlotte's watchful and critical eye, struggling to be the perfect daughter and giving in to Charlotte's whims. But when she steps out on her own for the first time, Camille quickly spirals out of control

Connie Rodgers has fallen in love with her new son and things are going strong with her son's father, John King. For two people who have lived very difficult lives, the dreams of love and family have finally come true. Then John is called back home when he finds out that his father is on his deathbed. Some unwelcome blasts from the past resurface, putting their new family to the test.

J. D. Mason is the author of Take Your Pleasure Where You Find It, That Devil's No Friend of Mine, You Gotta Sin to Get Saved, This Fire Down in My Soul, Don't Want No Sugar, And on the Eighth Day She Rested, and One Day I Saw a Black King. She lives in Denver, Colorado, with her two children