INTRO TO STATEN BAY 3

            For fans of my Staten Bay Trilogy, I’m posting on my Web site the final installment, book 3, After Doll.

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            Little Doll, granddaughter of the original Just Doll, in book one of the trilogy, now finds herself in old age having to raise her own granddaughter, Sara Ann—an adolescent mess. Doll’s only living son, Herman—“a Herman-type for real and not Doll’s fault”—leaves Sara Ann with his mother after his wife is killed in an automobile accident. Well, that’s the story he tells his daughter; one of many conflicts between him and his mother, his cowardice and lies.

            Flashing back on Doll’s life between the end of book 2 and the beginning of book 3, I fill in the blanks—what happened after Doll sets the suffering prisoners free from the Jasper jail on the coldest night in North Florida history? Doll falls heir to Staten Bay Plantation, after First Doll’s death, with all its problems, promises and ghosts. Her job—other than ghost-slayer—is to groom her sassy, baiting granddaughter to be the next heir and owner of Staten Bay Plantation. Not an easy task given the fact that Sara Ann shows little early interest or inclination.

            And then there’s the rumor of buried gold—truth or myth?--to contend with...

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