AFTERNOON MOON

About the Book

Anyone researching their family history hopes to find more than names and dates. Corena, a wealthy Seattle socialite is no different. In a 1957 newspaper interview she tells of her genealogy project, and that she has decided to make public her findings. Her granmother, Molly Rosebrook age 92, reads the interview and asks Corena to visit her. Molly gives Corena a diary kept by Molly's parents, Corena's Great Grandparents. Read along with Corena the 1865-68 diary written during Molly's first three years. It is a story of romance, smuggling, poaching, death, prospecting, outlaws, Indians, escape from England and pursuit across America.

About the Author

My daughter and I were researching family history and that led to this story about wanting to find more than names and dates. My daughter works as a book seller and I am a retired school teacher. I live in rural Missouri and my daughter lives in Washington.