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An Imperfect Woman,
Look for my debut novel to be published early this summer!
Perfection.
Mary Pearson Wood chases it for decades. From dirt floors and crude wooden plates in her dismal Missouri childhood to velvet curtains and imported porcelain china in early 1900’s Denver society, will her single- minded pursuit be her salvation or downfall?
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Beaded Purses
History Between the Pages Excerpts from An Imperfect Woman by Linda Ross (from Chapter 1, “The Secret Interview & Green Velvet”) In the refined hush of the Cottey College parlor, Mary Pearson struggled to tuck in a loose bead on her dead mother’s beaded purse. Shabby with frayed threads and faded cotton, a weary bead…
Ragtime
Mary immediately thought of the Chinese vase, beckoning her to a far-away land and mysterious people with gilded pagodas and exotic flowers. Must take that vase. But Mary held her tongue until she and John could be alone.
Elder Mrs. Wood sat rigid, glaring at her husband but dared say nothing. Mary murmured an appropriate and…