Lutheran Ladies Circle

What happens when strong-willed women get tired of one person running everything? A sparkling, comic disregard for change. If you're looking for a sweet book about dealing with change-this isn't it. But you will laugh as a cast of lively characters push through conflicted times. The Lutheran Ladies are sassy, have "strong-spine" opinions, and have stepped out of your office, your kid's soccer club, or your church to live on these pages. They deal with change-sometimes poorly-but with humor and heartache; they're on life's journey. In Book One: Vera Henley has pulled the strings of the Lutheran Ladies Circle for years; now everything is unraveling. Traditions are changing. Even the annual rummage sale can't escape modernization. And the independent Circle women are cheering the changes-all except for Vera. Her humorous efforts to stop time time are often heart-breaking. And when her high-maintenance, crazy aunt introduces even more rebellion and upheaval, Vera is forced to pick through the chaos and choose: Which threads of change should she pluck-or can she bend others to doing it her way?

Where does an old lady sneak off to when she ditches her church group? If she's stubborn and peppery like Aunt Ula, she rides a train back to her secrets. Ula's looking for pieces of her past, and the trail began on a southern railway over sixty years ago. This time, a guilt-laden, leopard-haired gal has decided to be her friend and seatmate. The twenty-five-year-old is also running away, her remorse trailing all the way back to Texas. The two discover they have stories in common and secrets to share. But Ula can't explain the force driving her to collect the pieces of her past-particularly a memento hidden during WWII by a man most people think is a figment of her imagination. With the strange Texas gal's help, she may be able to find it… After all, both women already know the first rule of change: You have to leave to start the journey.