Ragtime Dudes Meet a Paris Flapper: 3

Ragtime is old hat World War I is over and the Roaring Twenties are underway.Cherie an American flapper living it up in Paris never intends to go back to her tiny New Mexico hometown. But while visiting her sister in New York a telegram brings word that an old friend Morgan is dying. Ragtime dudes Morgan and Jack and wife Abigail helped the sisters when their mother died. Now its time to repay the favor.They arrive in Taos to find Abigail overwhelmed Jacks in denial about Morgans fate and Abigails son Cyrus is suffering from shell-shock--just like veterans Cheries seen in Paris. Touched by his plight Cherie nurtures him. Its not long before they fall in love. Abigail fears that once Cherie returns to Paris Cyrus will be worse off than before. Cherie misunderstands and thinks mother hen wants her out of the picture.When Bryce another friend from the days of ragtime arrives Morgan experiences a brief rally and asks to be driven to a place in the Taos Mountains hes always found spiritual. On the mountaintop the Parisian flapper the ragtime dudes and their strange extended family find themselves at the threshold of a thin place.Winner of Royal Palm Literary Award for Historical Fiction