In the Beginning

About the Book

SAM ELLIOTT, and his wife, ANN ELLIOTT, begin life in the small town of Sumter, South Carolina. He enrolls in college and she opens her own beauty salon. He completes his Business degree and manages her salon.

JESSICA LEA WELLS AND REBECCA SUE MCGEE, come looking for a place to build their profession. Later, MOLLY MARIE JOHNSON joins the four.

Ann, Abigail, Angela, Molly and Sam become close, sharing dinners and shopping trips. The salon does very well and Ann makes the four co-owners in the salon with Ann.

RACHAEL ANN ROGERS joins the group. Rachael is a nurse. Ann presents the idea of making them all one family and the corporate union is formed.

They win the lottery and finance a homestead. The family becomes very wealthy, despite their extensive philanthropy. The expanded family share love, adventure and life. They add to the family, fight off pirates, meet lots ofpeople and change society. There is love, sex and social/economic changes presented for thought.

About the Author

Thomas Peter Strange was born in Neustadt, Germany and grew up in Germany, Wisconsin, Michigan and New York. He graduated from Waverly High, New York and received higher education in classes at San Jose`, California, Universities of Michigan, South Carolina and Central Carolina Technical College in Sumter. A veteran of the sixties and seventies Asian games and life partner of Somkuan ‘Kim’ Strange. Tom and his wife live in Sumter, South Carolina.