Leah's Books
Meet the Beauregard Family
Home Cries the Soul
Book I
Beauregard Family Series
The author’s debut adult fiction novel is the first book in the Beauregard Family series about family ties, long- buried secrets, dead bodies, scandal, and one woman’s journey from discarded to redeemed.
Laura Lynne, youngest daughter of the Beauregard family, receives a call from her uncle. He is in jail for murder. Laura Lynne’s adult life has involved a divorce, remarriage, blended family, move, and career change. She has become a confident and successful woman in her new life. But one call and she feels like a teenager back in Mississippi being cast out of her parents’ home and privileged life for circumstances beyond her control. She has not returned to the family farm, Tea Olive Plantation, since 1985.
Skeletal remains have been unearthed, and along with them secrets and demons, demons that Laura Lynne has kept hidden well and has no desire to unleash. Faced with family obligations and her past, Laura Lynne returns to Venice, Mississippi. Here she rekindles relationships with her best friend, Grace, and her high school English teacher, Mary. Laura Lynne discovers a pattern of missing girls, stories all too similar to her own that fateful summer of her sophomore year. While she works to hold on to the amazing life she has created, she knows she must confront the evil that has haunted her for decades and bring to justice the man who is still actively pursuing other victims.
What she discovers is chilling and freeing.
Peace Cries the Soul
Book II
Beauregard Family Series
The author’s next adult fiction novel is the second book in the Beauregard Family series about family ties, long-buried secrets, dead bodies, scandals, and one man’s attempt to stop running and face his legacy.
Sawyer, nicknamed Tripp, is the oldest son of the Beauregard family. He is a career military man as a Colonel in the United States Army. Other than attending his father’s funeral five years ago, he has not been home in decades. But Sawyer receives an urgent call from his younger sister explaining that there is a family emergency and he is needed at home.
The skeletal remains of a corpse have been uncovered, and with the body, long-buried secrets. Sawyer is thrust into the role of patriarch at the family farm. In Venice, Mississippi, Sawyer rekindles his friendship with a local deputy, Grady, and discovers the depths to which his family will go to maintain their position in society. All while dealing with his own demons, Sawyer struggles to hold his family together and protect them from an unknown assailant. And, to complicate matters further, Sawyer is instantly attracted to the town’s bookstore owner, Diane.
As Sawyer returns to civilian life, he finds himself wishing for the battlefield, where everything is black and white. Instead, he finds himself navigating the gray areas of love, loyalty, betrayal, and sacrifice—a far cry from the peace he seeks.
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Truth Cries the Soul
Book III
Beauregard Family Series
The author’s next adult fiction novel is the third book in the Beauregard Family series about family ties, long-buried secrets, dead bodies, and a middle-aged woman facing the tragic circumstances of her past decisions.
Born into prominence, Scarlet has followed in her mother’s footsteps and is the current matriarch of the Beauregard family. Scarlet has done everything she was taught to do by her parents and is mired in obligations and expectations. She followed the same high society playbook her mother used but with disastrous results. Scarlet finds herself saddled in a marriage with a man who does not love her, left alone to deal with the death of her son, all but penniless, and emotionally and physically broken.
The secret life Scarlet has worked to keep buried is exposed to the light. And, in doing so, Scarlet must deal with the aftermath. As Scarlet grapples with the circumstances that brought her back to her childhood home, she learns the truth surrounding her marriage, her son, and herself.
Entrusted with a secret left in a safe deposit box by her deceased mother-in-law, Scarlet begins to put her life back together again. She sees things from a fresh perspective and with new hope. Old enemies rear their heads, new friendships are formed, budding relationships abound, business opportunities present themselves, and Scarlet confronts the woman she admires and detests- her mother.
She must decide who and what she is going to become. And for the first time ever, on her own terms.
But first, she has to learn to trust herself again.
The author’s fourth adult fiction novel is the fourth and final book in the Beauregard Family series about family ties, long-buried secrets, dead bodies, scandal, and one man’s journey to seek truth and find justice.
Avery Rhett Beauregard, the youngest sibling in the prominent Mississippi family, is back home with his special needs son, Rhett. While his wife and twin daughters tour Europe, Avery and Rhett find themselves thrust into a myriad of chaotic and tumultuous events surrounding the Beauregard family. Not to mention the bizarre request he receives from a woman he barely knows.
Unlike his siblings, Avery’s life has been typical in comparison. He has a wife he loves and has been married to for 30 years, children he adores and who love him too, and a job in counselling he has successfully performed since graduating college. A job he does as a penance if not for the love of counselling and working with vulnerable and most times, challenging, children.
His atonement for surviving a wreck he should have died in with his friends his senior year of high school.
Now it’s time to discover what really happened in 1991. To find out why his best friend went from sweet and innocent, to somber and depressed. Why his girlfriend’s father was found on his family’s property. And who is behind all the sordid events surrounding his family’s life the past 40 years.
He must be willing to face his fears, overcome his survivor’s guilt, and come to terms with the event that changed the course of his entire life.
And face the woman who broke his heart, his mother.