Jack, a widowed professor with a young son, and Rocky, a gal who wears leathers and travels by motorcycle, make an unlikely pair. The third storyline shows us how family can affect wedding plans. She puts an uppity Social Services agent in her place, meets her match in a sheriff’s deputy who has the audacity to write her a speeding ticket, and experiences a series of unsettling dreams in which her Black Seminole ancestor, First Tamar, returns to convey important messages. Tamar is described as a force of nature, and in this story she continues to make that force known.
Tamar July, the matriarch of the town, has never gotten along with certain members of her family, but at the request of her dying cousin, she opens her home to her and promises to arrange the cousin’s funeral. Later, when Gemma gets a second chance to bring the children back into her home, she must face prejudice against a white woman trying to foster African American children.
With a heavy heart and some trepidation, Gemma bids the siblings good-bye. Gemma is hoping to foster the children, but when the size of their inheritance becomes known, a great aunt appears to claim them. The two begin walking in the hope of finding help, which arrives in the form of Gemma Dahl, a Henry Adams resident who picks them up and, with some help from the county sheriff and town leaders, takes the children home with her. A tornado roars through rural Kansas, and within a few terrible minutes, an adoptive father is dead but his children, ten-year-old Lucas and eight-year-old Jaz, are left alone in a wrecked car with scrapes and bruises and an out of commission cellphone. While this book can work as a standalone, potential readers may want to read the others beforehand in order to fully appreciate the backgrounds of all the characters who appear in the present story.Įach book focuses on a particular set of residents, and in this novel, we learn how life is treating people through three storylines. Underlying all the activity is the desire to preserve the town’s African American history and culture. The series follows the lives of the residents, now racially mixed, as they rebuild the community and create a welcoming place where people can find a fresh start.
Chasing Down a Dream is the eighth book in the popular Blessings series set in Henry Adams, Kansas, a fictional town representing the townships founded by freed slaves after the Civil War. In the first novel, Bring on the Blessings, Henry Adams had fallen onto such hard times that the town leaders decided to sell it on eBay.
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