Hope for Tomorrow

<p>Hope For Tomorrow</p><p><br>Families are a wonderful thing...</p><p>But how does a woman navigate being a wife and a mother of four children and keep her marriage from falling apart?<br>How does a woman continue to hide her attraction for a man who is deeply in love with his wife her sister?<br>How does a teenage girl cope with her overbearing grandmother who refuses to let her grow up and chart her own path?<br>How far would an angry stepdaughter go to punish the woman her father married?</p><p>In Jacqueline Ballard's debut novel that spans three generations the complexities of the lives in these pages reveal love loyalty deceit infidelity loss rape and murder.</p><p>The story begins with Olivia giving birth to her fourth child at the hospital with her husband Phillip wiping her brow. A moment filled with anticipation for the child to be born but there is an undercurrent of longing by Olivia's sister that will not be denied.</p><p>You are taken back in time where you will meet Olivia's mother Queen as a teenager growing up in church under the watchful eye of her grandmother Mrs. Jenny Abigale Montgomery. Queen comes of age and faces unexpected challenges that threaten her future.</p><p>Darlene enters the story as an innocent child whose married father had an affair with her mother thus beginning a journey into madness.</p><p>Is there hope that these families will prevail?<br> </p><p> </p>