Jenny D. Beard and her husband live in Central Florida. They are the parents of four adult children. Jenny is a member of the prestigious Florida Writers Association, The Writers League of the Villages and Twin Pages Group. She is retired from the Columbus Division of the Amerisource Corporation, where she worked in accounting. Jenny dearly loves country life and takes great delight in writing about yesteryear and wonderful down to earth people.
Book one opens the Balmer family saga, an emotional, multi–generational journey.
Escaping Switzerland's religious terror of 1715, the Balmer family, along with many other brethren, accepts William Penn's offer of peace and new opportunities in teh colonies. As decades pass, the Balmer gernations experience gread sadness, fanaticism, elopement, and abduction. They find reprieve in deep love and compassion while realizing fulfilled dreams and finding surprising miracles.
A powerful saga set in the early 1700's, chronicling the Balmer family who is determined to escape religious persecution. Readers will quickly be drawn into the lifestyle, harsh living conditions and challenges of these hardy new colonists following their crossing of the ocean and settlement anew in the wilds of Pennsylvania.
–Author Claudette M. Parmenter – Former newspaper and magazine article writer and ghostwriter of the WWII aviator memoirs, Twin Destinies.
An emotional novel about generations of the Balmer family as they migrate from Europe to the colonies. Readers cannot help but feel the strong ties, moral values and respect the Balmers have for mankind during their struggles, good times and sorrows.
–Author Lorraine M Harris – multi-award winner with nine published books available on Kindle, Nook, amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.
About the Author
Jenny D. Beard is a member of the prestigious Florida Writers Association, the Writers League of the Villages and Writers in Time. Jenny is retired from the Columbus Division of the Amerisource Corporation. She and her husband live in central Florida and are the parents of four children.
The saga of the Balmer family continues, introducing young Debbie, whose past casts shadows over her future.
Mysterious deaths, steamy sex, unexpected inheritances, love affairs, constables, mountain shacks, fires and captivating down home folks are merely part of Edith Balmer's memories. As an elderly widow now living in San Diego, Edith is encouraged by her guests to regale them with her precious memories of days gone by.
However, prior to recalling events from the past, Edith enlightens her guests about Debbie Van Buren, her intriguing neighbor who has recently flown to France to accept a one year teaching position. In spite of her young age, pretty Debbie Van Buren is leading a dangerous cloak and dagger life and feels the need to watch her back constantly, as shadows from her past seem to rise up out of nowhere. What is it that keeps Debbie on edge?
About the author:
Jenny D. Beard and her husband live in Central Florida. They are the parents of four adult children. Jenny is a member of the prestigious Florida Writers Association, The Writers League of the Villages and Twin Pages Group. She is retired from the Columbus Division of the Amerisource Corporation, where she worked in accounting. Jenny dearly loves country life and takes great delight in writing about yesteryear and wonderful down to earth people.
A dawning new era drastically changes the lives of all the Balmers forever when dependable youngsters break away from social mores and customs causing strife within families, and when a murder is discovered which seems unsolvable. Touchingly human characters will capture and entertain you throughout this novel. The author will keep you turning those pages until the very end in which more than one ongoing suspense is resolved.
–Author Claudette M. Parmenter – Former newspaper and magazine article writer and award winning author of IT HAPPENED IN JUGATSU and Ghost writer of the novel, TWIN DESTINIES.
Book Three is Jenny D. Beard's final novel in her days of yore trilogy chronicling the exciting Balmer and Gage families.
After a year of teaching abroad, young Debbie Van Buren is happy to return home and away from the danger that lurked in France. Still concerned, she constantly looks over her shoulder.
Prior to the opening of her language school in San Diego, pretty Debbie meets an unusual, mysterious someone. Debbie's elderly, steadfast neighbor, Edith Balmer, is concerned. She takes lonely Debbie under her wing and introduces her to the huge Balmer and Gage families in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Will meeting these impressive family members change Debbie's life? What is it that keeps her on constant alert? Why must she watch her back?
Romance, dread, a boat captain predator, a lost love, an emergency hospital trip, a surprise Balmer relative, a German POW and an out of control, red-headed gunman make for exciting and fast reading in A SENSE OF NOSTALGIA.
About the author:
Jenny D. Beard and her husband live in Central Florida and are the parents of four children. Jenny is a member of the prestigious Florida Writers Association, The Writers League of the Villages and Twin Pages, a small critiquing group. Jenny dearly loves country life and takes great delight in writing about yesteryear and wonderful down to earth people.
Edith Balmer, elderly Matriarch of the Balmer family saga, continues to lend her sagely wisdom throughout this final chronicling of Jenny D. Beard's days of yore trilogy. Edith's followers are in for a treat as twists and turns continue within a weaving of endeavors that finally meld the Balmer and Gage families together.
–C. PARMENTER – former newspaper and magazine article writer and award winning author of TWIN DESTINIES, a WWII fighter pilot memoir, and IT HAPPENED IN JUGATSU, an action romance in the tropics.
