The Maidservant in Cabin Number One

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Braun uses the mountainous area and cabins to her advantage in telling the stories of her characters. An exceptional plot. Her character development is outstanding. -<em>Readers' Favorite</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>After her father's death in 1923 when Ruth Ann Landry is just ten she joins her mother as a maidservant for a wealthy Seattle family. The hours are long the rules are strict but she and her mother desperately need her wages to survive.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>By the time she's seventeen they've moved into the house and she's become a mistress to her employer. While accompanying the family on vacation she sees an opportunity to start a new life and leaves. Ruth eventually finds solace in the mountain town of Lake Arrowhead California where she stays in one of the cabins owned by a man who becomes part of her future.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Maidservant in Cabin Number One</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is the beginning of the story of The Guest Book Trilogy and of Annie Parker who eventually comes to own the cabins where Ruth Landry stayed.</span></p>