Chelle Franklin

For forty-eight years, Chelle Franklin had one word for her father: Sterling. No last name. No town. No photograph. Just a blank line on a birth certificate and a silence her mother would not break. She grew up loved and unprotected in the same house—raised by a grandmother who gave her...

For forty-eight years, Chelle Franklin had one word for her father: Sterling. No last name. No town. No photograph. Just a blank line on a birth certificate and a silence her mother would not break. She grew up loved and unprotected in the same house—raised by a grandmother who gave her...

In this fourth book, Chelle turns toward the people who made her—and finally, toward herself. Chapter Eight honors two grandmothers: Annelle, who raised her and never broke a promise, and Clarene, her father's mother, whose love she's only now getting the chance to know. Chapter Nine is the...

For forty-eight years, Chelle Franklin had one word for her father: Sterling. No last name. No town. No photograph. Just a blank line on a birth certificate and a silence her mother would not break. She grew up loved and unprotected in the same house—raised by a grandmother who gave her...