Francine Parker — Delibia

In the first book, Wind In Mourning, Francine Parker makes the decision to exchange life in the rural cabin in Gough's Ridge for a singing career at the Rosemont Theater in New Orleans. On the same day she and Thomas shared their wedding vows he was tragically shot and died in her arms. She was willing to take his memory with her, but her heart guarded the secret of their illegitimate daughter, who is left behind with Aunt Judith Ann. We now join Francine Parker in 1921. Believing that love can conquer all, she begins her quest for love only to find her life in immediate peril. Always looking for love in the wrong places she has to endure each dreaded consequence. She is not only arrested for the murder of an occult leader, but she becomes entangled in a devastating scandal, and then is haunted by the relentless pursuit of a madman. Francine discovers the hard way that life in the Big Easy is far from easy! With war and the Great Depression destroying dreams, Francine is taken out of plush theater life and plunged into poverty as she consents to a marriage of convenience so she can be part of a street ministry. Her lifelong fear that God could never love an unwed mother is drastically challenged and altered when she finds herself staring in the face of death and defeat. Francine Parker fights back and discovers an inner, spiritual strength that finally leads her to the love she has always desired.