Diane Tibbitts

The Laurel Wreath Diane Tibbitts

Love, murder, vigilante justice, war-Does love conquer all differences? Does revenge settle the score? Two families with opposing views on everything-race, religion, politics. Can the passionate love of their children settle the conflicts the two of them inherit?Henry Gray is the oldest son of Thomas Gray, a Confederate spy from South Carolina who went to Denver, Colorado after the end of the Civil War. Henry has to flee Colorado after murdering his young wife's lover. He joins the KKK and marries May Hankins, who was born and raised in Texas. Henry's actions during the Tulsa Massacre have long-lasting repercussions no one could have foreseen. Arthur Lannery is the son of a Catholic Irish immigrant from Pennsylvania who establishes a successful oil supply business in Oklahoma. He marries Gladys Rouche, a young woman who was raised in Ohio. Join the Gray and Lannery families as they live through the worldwide pandemic of the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression, and WWII. Set in the time period 1918-1948, Rage is the second book in the series The Laurel Wreath.