"This series is not about dying. It’s about joyously, lovingly, energetically living." ~Amazon Reviewer

If you’ve ever gotten crosswise with family, then you can understand why I avoid family reunions.

My aging mother gets lost on the country road she’s taken for years to get from her ranch to the small town where she grew up. Despite these short-term memory lapses, she can recount every detail of the day I broke her heart twenty-five years ago. Her inability to forgive me has made her as crusty as the tiny fossils embedded in the Frio River's limestone bluffs. After wasting years of my life trying to chip away these hurts, I gave up on us ever finding our way back to each other.

Then Momma fell and broke her hip. With the secret hope of mending fences, I flew home to offer my help. But Momma refused to consider convalescing back East. Unable to juggle my demanding job and rebellious teenager from Texas, I had no choice but to leave her in an assisted living center in Austin. I should have known that telling her I thought her memory lapses meant it was time to sell the ranch was a mistake because the moment she was strong enough to manipulate her walker, she stole a car and broke out of rehab. Just to prove me wrong. Again.

Now Momma is missing, and I'm sandwiched between two impossible choices: stay in DC with my troubled daughter or go to Texas to find my demented mother.

Either way, I feel like I've already lost.

The fictional story of the Slocum women is the story many of us are facing. Navigating the care of an aging parent while parenting our own children is never easy. Some days we have to laugh to keep from crying.

This 3-book series serves up a generous helping of laughs and hope. It's a touching addition to your collection of southern small-town family saga authors like Ann B. Ross, Jan Karon, and Kristy Woodson Harvey.

"A powerful masterpiece of authentic caregiving for aging parents." ~Amazon Reviewer

You can BUY the whole FOSSIL RIDGE series today:

#1 Flying Fossils

#2 Finally Free

#3 First Frost

After you've enjoyed the tough-as-boot-leather women of the Fossil Ridge Ranch, you're going want to read all about Leona Harper and the quirky folks of Mt. Hope. Readers are calling Mt. Hope the new Mitford.

Go ahead and treat yourself to another one of Gentry's laugh-out-loud southern adventure series:

#1 Walking Shoes

#2 Shoes to Fill

#3 Dancing Shoes

#4 Baby Shoes