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Elizabeth is happily creating her own perfect family when an unexpected comment smashes her carefully built illusion, revealing her deep-seated anger with her mother.
Debbie Mumford
Debbie Mumford specializes in speculative fiction—fantasy, paranormal romance, and science fiction. Author of the popular Sorcha’s Children series, Debbie loves the unknown, whether it’s the lure of space or earthbound mythology. Her work has been published in multiple volumes of Fiction River, as well as in Heart’s Kiss Magazine, Spinetingler Magazine, and other popular markets. She writes about dragon-shifters, time-traveling lovers, and ghostly detectives for adults as Debbie Mumford and contemporary fantasy for tweens and young adults as Deb Logan.
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Treasures - Debbie Mumford
Treasures
Debbie Mumford
WDM PublishingContents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Also by Debbie Mumford
Delectable Mountain Quilting sample chapter
About Debbie Mumford
Acknowledgments
1
Mamma has always had a love for other people’s possessions. I’ve known this my whole life, so I hovered over her like a hawk eyeing a prairie dog.
Oh, Mother Lange,
I exclaimed. What a wonderful piece of Lladro.
I deftly removed my mother-in-law’s prized porcelain statuette from Mamma’s greedy fingers, and placed the little figurine back on the mantle. Taking a firm grasp of Mamma’s elbow, I guided her to the center of Mother Lange’s sofa. The most appropriate seat I could find for a kleptomaniac: nothing in arm’s reach save a throw pillow.
I’m so glad you like it, dear,
said Roger’s mother. I smiled up into her elegant face without relaxing my grip on my own mother’s arm.
Roger, my husband of six months, had no idea how lucky he was to have been raised by this genteel and guileless woman. Mamma suffered by comparison. Of course, Mamma suffered by comparison to a baboon… whose females make remarkably good mothers.
And you, Mrs. Wilson,
said Mother Lange, do you enjoy art?
Oh, aye,
said Mamma, her gaze straying back to the