Bartered Souls, A Novel

By Kathryn E. Jackson

Bartered Souls , a novel, by Kathryn E. Jackson, is the first of a pair of books tells the story of what happens when a middle-aged woman, Sparrow, finds herself alone in the family home she never had the courage to leave. Sparrow is the product of an affluent, central Kentucky family that was ruled by a tyrannical mother. Family secrets leveraged to control shaped Sparrow's and her siblings' psyche and lives. Sparrow never left her mother's house. Instead, she existed to serve the needs of others rather than making a life for herself. Now, in her mid-forties and on her own, Sparrow desperately wants to put her past to rest and live a life free of guilt, shame, and fear, but Sparrow's discovery of her mother's hand in what happened to the baby she wasn't allowed to keep shakes the foundation of the new life she is trying to build. Will the support of her new friend, Sophia, an older woman, the guidance of Sophia's three daughters - a psychic, a therapist, and a financial attorney - and the friendship of a contractor named, Pete, be enough to help her bandage her old wounds and create a life of her own?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520913931
• ISBN13: 9781520913933
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"