Imagine Clara and Abbie Beecher’s surprise when a famous movie star shows up at
their mother’s funeral in The Sunshine Girls by Molly Fader coming out in
December.
In 1967, farmer’s daughter Betty Kay Allen was paired
with Southerner Katherine Simon in the dormitory at St. Luke’s School of
Nursing in Greensboro, Iowa. Together with Jenny Hopkins from Michigan, the
three women – dubbed the “sunshine girls” by their dorm mother -- remained
life-long friends.
Betts’ daughters never had a clue that their mother
was friends with Kitty Devereaux, but here Kitty was paying her respects to
their mother. On the other hand, Jenny had been involved with the Beecher
family throughout their lives. Once over the shock of learning that their
mother and father Willis Beecher knew a movie star, they are invited by Kitty to
visit her in California where she would fill in the blanks for Clara and Abbie.
Over the years, the sisters had become distant as
Clara picked a career path and Abbie chose being a wife and mother. During the
weekend trip to Kitty’s place, the women will be overcome with all of the
secrets they learn about their family. What impact will it have on the sisters
when Kitty’s startling story is revealed?
Molly Fader is also the author of The McAvoy Sister’s
Book of Secrets and The Bitter and Sweet of Cherry Season. Using
the pseudonym of Molly O’Keefe, she has written more than 50 contemporary
romances. She makes her home in Toronto, Ontario, with her family.
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