Click on Sneak Peek - The Contrite Socialite to read an excerpt from my second book!
Delta Lavinia Augustine, one of Atlanta's most revered socialites, crashes her ex-husband's party and demands that month's alimony payment. What she discovers too late is that it's a party for him and more specifically, his wake.
Ostracized by her society friends, Delta's determined to put her self-centered lifestyle behind her. In a moment of desperation, she takes her housekeeper's advise to 'ask her priest to assign penance', and hightails it to her Baptist church to find a pastor who'll lower the proverbial boom on her. Figuring that if Catholics can get absolution, so should a good 'ole God-fearing Southern Baptists.
Asa Nolan, confirmed bachelor and one time hell hound of the small town of Thomasville, realizes that the woman in the church alcove has mistaken him for a man of the cloth and is asking for penance. Pulling from experience, which amounts to one week's worth of Vacation Bible School in the 5th grade, Asa instructs Delta to give away her worldly possessions and live her life in service to others, turning no one away.
Two months later, Delta escapes to the South Georgia town of Thomasville, where she plans to live out her year long penance after giving away all of worldly possessions including her sizable estate. And it just so happens the new neighbor next door is the gorgeous hunk of a pastor she's been dreaming about since meeting him that fateful day in church.
When Delta discovers the truth about her so-called pastor, there's hell to pay and one contrite socialite that's given up any thoughts of repentance, and is instead out for revenge.
Ostracized by her society friends, Delta's determined to put her self-centered lifestyle behind her. In a moment of desperation, she takes her housekeeper's advise to 'ask her priest to assign penance', and hightails it to her Baptist church to find a pastor who'll lower the proverbial boom on her. Figuring that if Catholics can get absolution, so should a good 'ole God-fearing Southern Baptists.
Asa Nolan, confirmed bachelor and one time hell hound of the small town of Thomasville, realizes that the woman in the church alcove has mistaken him for a man of the cloth and is asking for penance. Pulling from experience, which amounts to one week's worth of Vacation Bible School in the 5th grade, Asa instructs Delta to give away her worldly possessions and live her life in service to others, turning no one away.
Two months later, Delta escapes to the South Georgia town of Thomasville, where she plans to live out her year long penance after giving away all of worldly possessions including her sizable estate. And it just so happens the new neighbor next door is the gorgeous hunk of a pastor she's been dreaming about since meeting him that fateful day in church.
When Delta discovers the truth about her so-called pastor, there's hell to pay and one contrite socialite that's given up any thoughts of repentance, and is instead out for revenge.
