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Overview

Six months ago her three daughters walked out and left Charlotte Rodgers to fend for herself. Charlotte is resentful and bitter towards her children, Clarice, Connie, and especially Camille, for leaving her to face the memories of her painful past. What Charlotte doesn’t know is that the past will soon catch up with her once again.

Justin and Clarice Braxton are struggling to hold on to their marriage. Justin’s affair has taken its toll, and Clarice (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.

Camille Rodgers has lived her whole life under Charlotte’s critical eye, struggling to be the perfect daughter and giving in to Charlotte’s whims. 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. Then John finds out that his father is on his death bed. Unwelcome blasts from the past resurface, putting their new family to the test.

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The fierce fourth appearance of the Rodgers women (after You Gotta Sin to Get Saved) finds matriarch Charlotte Rogers confronted with her worst nightmare: the reappearance of Uncle Lamont Williams. Twenty-seven years earlier, Uncle killed Charlotte's lover and savagely beat her. Now he's out of prison and eager to reconnect. Turns out, years ago, Uncle used young Charlotte to pay off a debt, and now Charlotte is a bitter woman whose youngest daughter, Cammy, recently lost a child in a car accident. Unable to cope, Cammy leaves her husband and moves to Denver to be closer to her older sisters, Connie and Clarice, who are having romantic problems. Mason vividly explores the roller-coaster relationships the chronically unhappy Charlotte has with her daughters and captures Charlotte's desperation as she contends with Uncle, leading to a bone-chilling if paradoxically uplifting ending. (Feb.)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312368883
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 1/31/2012
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 394,189
  • Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 8.52 (h) x 0.93 (d)

Meet the Author

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.

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“Miss Rodgers?”

There was a cop standing at her door. Charlotte eyed him wearily through the screen. “Yes?”

“Miss Rodgers, your daughter, Clarice Braxton? Called the station saying that she hadn’t heard from you and was worried. She asked us to check on you.”

Charlotte didn’t say a word.

“Are you alright, ma’am?” he eventually asked.

“I’m fine,” she said tersely.

The officer didn’t look convinced. “Are you sure?”

No, she wasn’t sure. Her children had turned on her and left her here all alone. How in the world could she be alright after her children had dismissed her the way the three of them had done?

“I’m fine,” she said, more convincingly.

He shook his head. “Call your children, ma’am,” he said, annoyed, before leaving. “They’re obviously worried about you.”

Charlotte slammed the door shut, sat down in her recliner, put her feet up, and stared at the television screen. The volume was turned down so low she could barely hear it. That was how she preferred it. After Camille, her youngest daughter, had moved out and left with Connie and Reesy, that house had felt like a tomb, cold, empty, and too quiet. Always quiet. Charlotte had learned to live with it, and to wallow in it as a reminder to herself that nobody gave a damn about her. They never did.

Less than ten minutes after that cop had left her front porch, the phone rang.

“Mom?” It was Clarice. “Mom, it’s me, Reesy. I know you’re there. The policeman said he saw you.” She sighed, irritably. “Mom, please. Don’t be like this. We’re worried about you. You haven’t spoken to me or Cammy since we left. You’re being silly.”

Silly? Charlotte was being silly? She angrily snatched up the receiver. “I’m being silly,” she huffed. “Silly is putting your nose in where it doesn’t belong, Reesy! Silly is making somebody believe with all their heart that you care about them when deep down, you know it’s not true!”

“Mom…”

“Silly is beating on your own mother, Clarice!” she said, letting go of bitter tears. “You’re never supposed to hit your mother! God saves a special place in hell for children who beat their mothers!”

“I didn’t beat you, Mom,” Reesy said, defensively, “and you know why I did it,” Reesy responded sheepishly. “I’m sorry, Mom. I am so sorry.”

Charlotte’s lip quivered. “I’m sorry too! Sorry I ever laid eyes on you again!” Charlotte hung up as abruptly as she’d answered.

She had loved Reesy more than the other two put together, until Connie, Charlotte’s oldest, finally managed to turn Reesy and Cammy against her with her lies and her ugly ways.

“You’re the one, Connie! Why the hell did you bring your black ass into my house?” Charlotte screamed.

“Momma!” Reesy tried stepping between Charlotte and Connie, standing toe-to-toe like two boxers.

“I always hated you!” Charlotte glared at Connie.

“I always hated you too, so that makes us even!” Connie shot back.

“You ain’t better than me, Connie!”

“Shit, Momma!” Connie smirked. “Who the hell isn’t better than you?”

Charlotte closed her eyes, recalling the rage she felt surging through her whole body as she swung her arm in the air, bracing herself to knock the shit out of that girl. And all of a sudden, she felt the sting and the heat from the slap across her face, not from Connie, but from Reesy.

Those girls had all expected for Charlotte to be perfect, but of course, she wasn’t. No mother is ever perfect. She’d only been fifteen years old when she’d had Connie, and what she learned about taking care of children, she learned on her own. She’d made mistakes with all of them. Charlotte could admit it to herself and to them. Charlotte had thought too much of herself when she was young, and had put her needs before the needs of her girls, but she had atoned for her selfishness. Charlotte had atoned for everything she’d done from taking off with Sam and leaving her two oldest girls behind to maybe being a little too hard on Cammy. She had paid for the things she’d done a hundred times over in ways they could never imagine. And she was still paying for it.

Hell is living twenty-seven years and not knowing if your children are alive or dead. She had had Cammy in that time, but there was no replacing her golden girls, Connie and Reesy, who she’d left behind in Denver. Charlotte had come to terms with the fact that she’d never see her girls again, until she got a letter in the mail from Reesy. Her baby had hired someone to find Charlotte, and for the first time in nearly three decades, she had finally had a prayer answered and a chance to go home again. But just as quickly as it had been given to her, those girls had brutally snatched it away from her. Lynn Randall had brought Charlotte to Murphy, Kansas, to save her life. Lynn had saved her, but she’d condemned her to this place, and Charlotte’s children had taken the key and left her here, like garbage, to rot.

 

Copyright © 2011 by J. D. Mason

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 13, 2012

    Excellent book!!

    Can't wait for the next book. Charlotte got exactly what she deserved!!

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  • Posted August 19, 2011

    Excellent read!!!

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  • Posted March 30, 2011

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    WOW

    All I can say is WOW!! This book is a MUST read. J. D. Mason truly did her this with this book. I enjoyed getting reacquainted eith The Rodgers Women.

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  • Posted March 27, 2011

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    Pieces Picked Up,

    "Somebody Pick Up My Pieces" picks up the pieces (pun intended) six months later where "You Gotta Sin to Get Saved" leaves off. Bitter in Murphy, Kansas , best describes Charlotte Rodgers. The tables are reversed as it's her daughters that leave her behind this time. To Charlotte's dismay, she won't be alone long. In Denver , Colorado, Clarice is still reeling from the breach in her marriage. But her husband Justin isn't the only one in default. Now the mother of a three-month-old, Connie is adjusting seemingly well to motherhood and things are good in her relationship with John King. But an early morning phone call may change all that. Cammy has lived her life for her mother Charlotte. Now, many miles away and finally in control of her own life, Cammy is having trouble living without her mom.

    "Somebody Pick Up My Pieces" is a light read that will probably please most J.D. Mason fans, although the content is not as strong as her previous releases. It's quite readable, easily showing Mason's skill as a storyteller. Initially, I was surprised to learn this book was a continuation as I thought "You Gotta Sin to Get Saved" was the concluding chapter. Though it was nice to revisit these characters again, I do hope that this is the final installment.


    Reviewed by: Toni
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  • Posted March 11, 2011

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    Recommended if you are Fan - Piece my life back Together, Please!

    JD Mason never fails at delivering realistic and sympathetic characters. She always includes someone you just despise. She continues the story of the three sisters dealing with a self-centered mother that she started in One Day I Saw a Black King. The book was enjoyable but the plot was little on the weak side. It appears from the author's dedication that she is finally going to put the characters from this series to rest. Which makes me very happy because I believe she has explored majority of these characters and there has been no stone left unturned. I still feel that One Day I a Saw a Black King and Don't Want No Sugar were the best in the series and continue to be JD's best works out of all of her novels. I was sad to see that the so call goody two shoes sister commits an affair although I understand the reason for this story line. I was hopeful that the oldest sister has finally come to terms of being love and realizes love is not perfect. It was a shock to see the youngest sister not able to shake her mental abuse by her mother. The book delivers a couple messages. One message is children have unconditional love for their mothers no matter if the mother is abusive or absent. The other message tells us we are not perfect and love is not perfect. JD Mason is wonderful story teller. I love reading about places in my home town and seeing a hometown girl becoming a bestselling author. I am avid reader of Ms Mason books and am currently reading her novel Take Your Pleasure where you find it. I look forward to seeing what life after the Roger's series brings in her new novels.

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  • Posted December 14, 2010

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    The latest Rodgers women saga once again makes the same case that the child is the adult.

    Almost three decades ago the worst day in her life occurred. Her Uncle Lamont Williams killed Charlotte Rodgers's lover and beat her to a pulp. She survived the brutal hammering while he went to prison.

    Now twenty-seven years since that horrific day, Lamont has been released from jail and wants to rejoin his family. His niece, now the family matriarch, wants nothing to do with the relative who also paid off a debt with Charlotte as the remittance.

    Her three adult children have left Charlotte isolated in Murphy, Kansas as they are frustrated with their acrimonious mother who abandoned them as children years ago and now struggle with their own problems. Her daughter Cammy lost her child in a car accident. She cannot move passed her grief so she leaves her husband. She moves to Denver where her two older sisters, Connie and Clarice "Reesy", reside. Connie loves her newborn. She and the baby's father John seem ideal for one another until he learns his father is dying. The third sister Clarice remains angry at her spouse Justin for cheating on her.

    The latest Rodgers women saga once again makes the same case that the child is the adult. The four females have new tsuris to compound their psychological defense mechanisms caused by more traumas than Job faced. The impetus this time that exponentially spirals the unhappiness of the foursome is the return of odious Lamont who demands retribution from his niece who he blames for his imprisonment. Although somewhat feeling repetitive to the previous tales (see One Day I Saw a Black King and You Gotta Sin to Get Saved) in spite of the latest tragedies, ironically there is a sense that finally somebody is picking up the pieces of her soul.

    Harriet Klausner

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