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  • Book 1 - Winners
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  • Book 2 - Winners, the Next Generation
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  • Book 3 - Mother, Where Are You?
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  • Author, Loretta L. Collins

Newest release.....Mother, where are you?

The author of ‘Winners’ and its sequel, ‘Winners, the next generation’ now presents her most poignant, heartbreaking work in her latest book, ‘Mother, where are you?’ It is a true and fascinating account of her mother, Grace, and her battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. It relates to the author’s experiences with her mother from her adolescent years to the present. It is a heart-rending memory of her battle with Alzheimer’s along with a sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes devastating journey down the path to oblivion, denial and finally acceptance. The story is told in loving and caring terms. Ms. Collins is a writer who uses life’s drama to bring her characters into the realm of reality, love and humility. Loretta is a campaigner for Alzheimer’s and hopes and prays for a cure in her lifetime. 

*A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Alzheimer’s foundation.

Winners

This fascinating story portrays the Malone family forced out of their homeland in County Mayo, Ireland as they emigrate to England as famine and impoverishment threaten their family’s well being. When their young daughter Maura weds Sean Sullivan against her parents’ wishes, she finds herself disowned by all members of her family and she is left destitute with a husband and ever-increasing family that she cannot possibly care for. As she desperately tries to feed and raise her children, a horrendous rape of her daughter occurs. This is the final act that makes her determined to abandon her family. She and her daughter decide to leave the Sullivan brood and try to make a home for themselves in the United States. The trials and tribulations of finding a new homeland become complex and their entanglements with new acquaintances make for deep and dark secrets – secrets that become too multifaceted to accept and to speak of to anyone. Heart-wrenching and forbidden love is tested throughout the story and the reader is transported into the emotional mind and body of its characters. After the completion of ‘Winners’ Ms. Collins discovered that she retained such deep emotion for her created characters that she needed to expound upon their lives once again. 

*A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Christopher Reeve Foundation.

Winners, The Next Generation

Thusly, the completed and published sequel of ‘Winners’ appropriately called, ‘Winners, the Next Generation’ is now available for your reading pleasure. It is here that the writer’s exploitation of Sarah and Troy come to life before the reader’s hungry eyes as they portray an example of everything good in life. The complications of hidden truths and the possibility of losing everything in their family that they have struggled to gain become alarmingly evident and they must find the inner strength to cope with the unending problems of their offspring as again, the family become emotionally involved with the members of its clan.

*Books are available through:

clorior@msn.com or lorettalcollins@yahoo.com 

*A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Christopher Reeve Foundation.

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