Ella Pruitt

Pregnant at thirteen by a young man who comes to her hometown, Ella commits what she considers a small act to hold onto the young man. But that one small act spirals out of control and becomes something that haunts Ella for years to come as she struggles with the decision she made that fateful summer and the effect it has as it touches everyone around her including the son she gave birth to--now an adult, and the prominent minister she eventually marries. 'Ella Pruitt', a story about memory, guilt and reckoning. (Excerpts at: Dougcooperspencer.com or tinyurl.com/ovvs7ny )