![]() ![]() Packed with historical detail and chock full of plucky and engaging characters of both sexes, The Hope Chest is highly recommended. Their adventures, in both North and South, involve readers in the pains and shames of the segregated world, as well as what it was like to be part of the fight for voting rights. Fortunately, she finds a street-wise traveling companion, an orphaned “colored” girl named Myrtle. A librarian by day and author by night, Mia lives in Canada with her cat and her shifter mate. She believes in soulmates, happy books, and dreams come true. Dangers and narrow escapes are everywhere along the way. Mia Harlan writes humorous, quirky reverse harem romance. Violet begins another journey, this time to Nashville. When she finds the settlement house where her sister works, however, she learns Chloe has gone to Nashville, Tennessee, to work for the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution-the one that will give American women the right to vote. The address from a long-ago letter isn’t much to go on, but she must try to find her. All Violet knows as she gets on a train is that her sister is in the City. It’s 1920, and Violet’s parents are resolved that she will not become one of those brazen, independent women like her sister, who has gone to work in New York. ![]() ![]() Chloe has been banished from Violet’s life after she took a nursing degree, and bought a car with the money set aside for her hope chest. Violet is eleven years old, but she has run away in order to find her older sister, Chloe. ![]()
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