Keeper of the Doves

In the late 1800’s, Amen McBee and her four sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and, maybe, sinister Mr. Tominski

I love getting a new name – a name no writer I know has used before – names like Bingo and Herculeah.  So when I got the name Amen, I was thrilled.  I knew, right away, how she got the name.  She had four older sisters whose names all begin with A, and her father, who’d been hoping for a son said, “Amen.”

A sister says, “Papa, that’s not a name.  That’s something you say at the end of a pray.”

“It is the end of a prayer – a prayer for a son!”

I decided right away, that the book would have 26 chapters and that each would begin with a letter of the alphabet.  That’s how I started the book – with 26 sheets of paper with a letter of the alphabet at the top of each one.