Teaching to Love

Carrie's goal is to memorialize her grandmother and her home for so long with new business venture. A Tea house and museum. when some old friends drop in she learns more about her Great Grandmother's um... adventures. Such as when a local Sheriff threatened to shut down the brothel, what was a woman to do? Take control of course!

Excerpt: Since arriving in town a month ago, Betsy had learned much about her new home. On the surface, Mt. Carmel appeared to be a sleepy river town filled with church going folk, kindly neighbors, and law abiding citizens. Beneath that quaint veneer, however, lay a secret society filled with speakeasies, jazz music, and fast dancing. Between the Great War and the influenza epidemic during the previous decade, the still recovering town desperately wanted an infusion of life and carefree fun. Betsy also noticed quite a few middle aged single men along with injured veterans in need of female companionship. Sadly, most of the young ladies were too spoiled to settle for "damaged goods."
Sighing, she thought of Sheriff Brighton. Uncle Liberty had told her all about the man's sad history. Apparently, he married his brother's widow, his brother having been killed in the first year of the War. The couple had produced one child, a son, a year after they had wed. Despite this, it was said that Mrs. Brighton had deeply loved her first husband and had never stopped mourning for him. Between the pain of his loss and the difficult birth of her only child, Mrs. Brighton had lost her mind, confined herself to her room and refused the good Sheriff entry. She also disdained the company of her child, leaving the sheriff alone to raise the boy with only the help of a housekeeper.