Silent Voices

by Marlene Mitchell

Overview

Marlene Mitchell sets her latest novel in fascinating New Orleans during the 1820s and '30s - an evocative time and place that draws readers into a world of madness, manipulation, deadly jealousy and passion.
Beautiful Genevieve Beaumont, trapped in a loveless marriage to a wealthy man twice her age, finds herself drawn to Daniel Evangeline, her husband's new employee on the family plantation. Genevieve tries to fight her feelings and maneuvers Daniel into a short-lived relationship with Amelia, the half-mad caretaker of Daniel's young ward. But Genevieve doesn't know that her possessive and unstable husband, aware of his wife's attraction, is plotting behind her back to ruin Daniel.
Marlene Mitchell is the author of the popular book, The Women of Magnolia, and six other novels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781505881660
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2011
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Originally from St. Louis, Marlene now calls Louisville, Kentucky home. A wife, mother and grandmother, Marlene has a wide range of interests including wildlife rehabilitation and painting. To quote Marlene, "It took me a long time to start writing, but now I never want to stop. The stories just keep on coming. I love to create characters that come alive on the page and stay with you long after you finish the book."

It was the tail end of the Great Depression when my mother began having babies. She had five children in five years and five years later, I was born. We were poor ragtag kids who had no idea about television, telephones or inside plumbing. All we had was a radio that picked up two stations. Most of the houses we lived in should have had a sign on the front door that said, "Condemned." We moved around a lot. My father enjoyed his creature comforts, which in his case were women and booze, while we stayed home with mom. We froze in the winter, burned up in the summer, ate lots of fatty meat fried in lard and walked a long way to school every day. We got one pair of shoes each year. They were brown leather, always a size too big so they would last until summer and you could go barefoot. We played outside until dark, wore plastic bags on over our shoes in the snow, and in the summer we swam in the Mississippi River. Cuts, scrapes and bruises from tin cans and glass were treated with Mercurochrome and a pat on the head. We had measles, mumps, whooping cough and chicken pox--and we survived it all.

To this day, my imagination is my best friend and creativity is my constant source of inspiration.