Loving Isabel

<p>Welcome to Loving Isabel Book 3 of the exciting series by Glenn Stewart.</p><p>Chasing Sally book 1 was released in 2022 with Raising Courageous book 2 of the series published in 2023.</p><p></p><p>The Chasing Sally-trilogy continues in Loving Isabel when the historic Brown vs the Board of Education ruling and an emboldened Civil Rights movement lead by a 26-year-old Black minister from Montgomery threaten an end to the White-segregationists' way of life. As Jim Crow begins to crumble the diverse and growing Lucy H family is forced into a confrontation with the local school board corrupt lawmen the Black Codes and the Ku Klux Klan ---with shocking results.  Annie's determination to protect her blended family from social and political upheaval runs head-on into the idealism of a young reporter from the North and her most formidable opponent so far---The New York Times.</p><p></p><p>About the<em> </em>Trilogy</p><p><em>Bigotry isn't an opinion it's a weapon in search of a target.</em></p><p><em>----</em>Sally Anne <em>Loving Isabel</em></p><p></p><p>The <em>Chasing Sally</em> trilogy chronicles the life and times of an extended-'family' from the year 1914 to 1954 in Jim Crow South Louisiana. The story begins with the Harrisons a White family of 3 for whom the town 'Harrisonville' is named. In <em>Chasing Sally </em>(Book One) the small family quickly grows to include Emma Williams a young Black mother who until she met the protagonist Sally Anne Harrison was alone raising her 6 children in nearly impossible poverty. Together the Harrisons' and the Williams' build a secure happy life on the sprawling <em>Lucy H </em>Thoroughbred horse<em> </em>ranch. Chasing Sally is in part a human-love-of-animals tale. The profound love of horses shared by the residents is an allegory for the love they share for one another.</p><p>The harsh reality of second-class citizenship for non-white citizens especially African Americans is on full-display in the <em>Sally</em> trilogy but it is not the point of the story. The story is about a diverse-group of human beings who create a refuge where the color divide is not a factor in choosing who they love and with whom they share a home.</p><p>The Lucy H is no utopia and no fantasy quite the contrary. The story rings-true and is entirely believable precisely because there <em>are in reality good people in the world</em>. On the Lucy H self-aware but flawed human-beings try to do the right thing in a society determined to divide them by skin color religion and ancestral heritage. </p><p>In book two<em> Raising Courageous</em> a Jewish man from New Jersey Dr. Brian Gold PhD joins the Lucy H family. Brian realizes that the Lucy H is precariously hidden and an easy target for racial and religious bigots. He fears that the Lucy H community is in imminent danger of being 'discovered' by the wider-world and he vows to fight for his new-found family.</p><p>Book Three <em>Loving Isabel</em> is set in the early 1950's when the old order is finally beginning to crumble. The Ku Klux Klan local law-enforcement and Russian mobsters target the Lucy H community forcing the family <u>to</u> protect with their wit and their lives what they've built. They face inexplicable hatred Russian machine guns and white-hooded men bearing a giant flaming Cross---When mortal danger arrives at the gates of their beloved Lucy H the unlikely-family must prove that what they share is more powerful than the forces determined to destroy them. </p>