Southern Fried Skeletons: Genuine Southern Recipes Included

Southern Fried Skeletons is a Southern novel, with laugh out loud humor, drama, and tragedy. It takes place in Greenville, S.C., and is an emotional roller coaster ride. Maggie Keith grows up in the finest Southern tradition, a popular debutante and beauty queen who is elected class president and sorority officer. She loves everybody regardless of race or social status. Her life seems perfect, until the first of many family skeletons rattles out from a closet and sets Maggie on a tragic collision course with a decision no kid should ever have to make. Set in the rollicking 1960s and early 1970s, Southern Fried Skeletons follows one girl's journey toward adulthood, barely surviving the psychedelic era. She is of stong Cherokee and Irish blood, and does indeed survive, but is damaged on many levels. Wounded for life. She finds the true love, which probably saves her life in the long run. After many years of emotional pain, she finally finds the only thing that will completely fill the the giant creator in her heart. Southern life seems to be bound by good food, which is ever present in this novel. As a gift to the readers, there are many Southern family recipes included that are the key to your man's heart (attack). Enjoy sharing them with your familes.

Ellen R. Rigby lives in the upstate of South Carolina with her husband of 35 years, their dog Ziggy, and cat, Fang. Her hobbies are reading, writing, gardening, watercolor painting, boating, music, and cooking, preferably dancing while cooking. They enjoy the S.C. coast and frequent the mountains of N.C. and Tennessee with the Mini Cooper named Wander.