Suzanne Popp
ASIN: B00GYMDE38
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 262
This sequel to The Bride Price shows that family and compassion are celebrated, as three generations learn from their past and build the future. Myrna Chitundu’s dreams are realized when her former tutor forms a foundation for the education of gifted girls in her honor. Rose, the daughter of Myrna is selected as the first headmistress. She is dismissive of the traditional way of her mother and moves boldly ahead. As a result, she misses the cues of the society and family around her, and finds herself with two womanizers at the Academy, one of whom is her own uncle. The uncle exploits his female students and Rose’s young cousin is abducted. Rose wants to make sweeping changes, but fails to recognize that society evolves. When she reads the diaries of her mother Myrna, she realizes there are family secrets that she has known nothing about. Rose has never dealt with people of other races. ...