TigerEye Publications, 2011.

Told from the perspective of an adolescent girl named Donita Tosh, THE SECRET TO FLYING explores the intricacies of the mother-daughter bond. For Donita, growing up poor in a small Arkansas town during the 1980s is bad enough, but having a mother with a scandalous reputation makes her life practically unbearable.

Southern Women’s Review (2010). 

Excerpt: I smell trouble before we even get out of Independence County. Merry Dell must smell it, too, because she is sniffling and her eyes are watering the way they do when she peels onions. When her cell phone jangles “I’ll Be Doggone,” she picks it up off the dashboard of her truck….