Gerri Bauer
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Spinning dreams of glamour, a seamstress uncovers a greater truth. In the second novel in the Persimmon Hollow Legacy series, we meet starry-eyed seamstress Josefa Gomez. Living and working with her aunt and uncle at a citrus grove in Persimmon Hollow, Josefa longs for the glamorous life of a sophisticated fashion designer. Her dreams alarm her Tía Lupita, who fears such ambitions are unrealistic for a 19th century woman. She decides Josefa should...
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A temporary exile becomes a forever home. Long before #MeToo, a 19th century American woman who became pregnant after an assault paid a high price. Laws didn't support her. Society shunned her. She was often banished from home. That's what happens to Penelope Gold, the heroine of Growing A Family in Persimmon Hollow. She is exiled to the Florida frontier town of Persimmon Hollow. She's expected to hide for the duration of her pregnancy, leave her...
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Love blooms for hotel servants on the Florida frontier Irish immigrant Margaret Murphy has many talents, but waitressing isn't one of them. A hotel waitress job in pioneer Florida is her last chance to help her family stave off starvation. But she's in danger of being fired. Will the love that blooms with a fellow worker, an immigrant from Italy, be a saving grace or a complicated distraction? Trust in Love is the first story in the Persimmon Hollow...
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Running from her past, a devout teacher finds her future. At Home in Persimmon Hollow is the first book in a series chronicling love and life in a small fictional town in frontier Florida. In 1886, the pious Agnes is forced to leave - for her own safety - the Catholic convent-orphanage where she grew up. With nothing but her faith to sustain her, she begins her new life as a teacher in Persimmon Hollow. She discovers a wild and beautiful new landscape...