Apron Strings and Broken Arrows

Auburn Jackson was alone ignorant and pregnant but not unBibled. She had sinned and was punished with a brain-damaged child to raise in the impoverished wilds of West Virginia. But she had spunk and the guile of the street-smart and she believed in the innate goodness in all. So armed Auburn guts out a nursing degree while caring for her child only to see him die like his father in a mine. Thinking to redeem herself from God's wrath Auburn takes a nursing job for handicapped youth on Hatteras Island and finds happiness and fulfillment for a time. She revels in loving an Indian child from her own birthplace on Knapps Creek.</p><p>No good deed goes unpunished the sage says and Auburn is not immune. Marriage an in-wedlock child and a happy home are not in God's plan for her redemption in this love story.</p>