The Velvet Bridge
by
Anita Stubbs

This true-to-life rags to riches tale, my first novel, is set during WWII  and could have actually happened if not for one thing: Mattie Featherstone never existed, other than between the covers of this 381-page book. But the lifestyles, the culture of the time, and some of the places ring so true, you'll wonder.  It's classic 1940's, Dallas, Texas, in and around Oak Cliff.

Too young to be widowed and too pretty to be alone, Mattie Featherstone is both. Suddenly impoverished, this confused, tormented woman abandons her children and seeks refuge in an encampment for vagrants situated near the Trinity River on the west side of Dallas during World War II.

When a twist-of-fate encounter eases Mattie out of destitution into the genteel world of her paper doll dreams, she manages to conceal the truth about her past from her benefactors. She even justifies - in her own mind - the abandonment of her daughters.

However, everything changes when yet another unforeseen event turns her life into sensational headline news, revealing more than even she could imagine.

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