Deep Water

About the Book

Too soon for love? The Widow Fowler doesn't think so when a certain letter drops out of the past into her mail chute. Mary Frances Vansant's early years were spent on a farm in the Thirties, a time of drought, storms, and bottomless depression; before rural electrification, running water, farm subsidies, paved roads, or credit cards. The incredible hardships of farm life were softened by the beauty of nature, an abundance of home-grown food, and the warmth of a close-knit, loving family, as well as her dreams of love in the arms of a handsome schoolmate. As an adult, she marries, drops the "Mary" from her name, and becomes Mrs. Frances Fowler, and later the Widow Fowler. A second chance at love is offensive to a straight-laced sister, and to the small-town mores. Is it too soon, or too late?

About the Author

Jane Jennings was raised on a farm similar to the one where Mary Frances lived in the story of DEEP WATER. She taught in a one-room country school, and went on to get her masters and teach English to college-bound high school seniors for many years. Now retired, she has collected her memories of farm life, school days, romance, and life-threatening experiences, and, with her husband, F. H. Fellhauer, has created a purely fictional romance based on those true-life memories. Sometimes thrilling, sometimes poignant, always authentic down to the shoe laces, DEEP WATER is a novel in the tradition of the classical romances, with none of the senseless violence and sex so prevalent in today's fiction. Jane now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, in her home of forty-five years.