BLAME RANE was a quiet college student until a tragic fire shattered her world. To escape poverty, Blame exposes herself to drugs, domestic violence, prostitution, and incarceration. She moves from welfare role to employment role as a single parent, from the grimy streets of D.C. to plush condos in VA; to rural NC, where she discovers the meaning of self-empowerment and unconditional love. Three birds tail her every move. This crow, cardinal and pigeon were an African-American, a Native American and a Caucasian woman in life. They are the blood ancestors of Blame Rane. The birds honestly tell the stories of their lives, taking us on an epic tour of American history. Blame encounters joy, jealousy, love, addiction, friendship, disease and opportunity. She battles classism, racism, and materialism; seizing passion, dignity and wisdom along the way. It's easy to blame the rain, but at some point, a woman learns to take responsibility for her life. Will Blame?

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

A magazine of tales, travels, essays, and poems.

Charity Standing is the most desirable woman in Devonshire--but she is jinxed, with trouble following her everywhere she goes. Rune Austin's upbringing in Barbados has marked him as too rough and roguish to find a wife from London's high and mighty "ton." But his fate changes when Charity crosses his path. Danger has never been a deterrent to a man like Rune.