Becoming Olive W

Beautiful, brilliant, wealthy. The world should be Olive’s oyster. Does she want too much?

For young women in the early 1900s, a string of pearls is sometimes the closest they can get to owning the world.

Orphaned as a toddler, Olive, a bright, feisty child, struggles to establish her place in a wealthy farming family. Her sisters are jealous, her brothers feel threatened, and her father, inept as a parent, is dependent on her skills.

Without a mother’s guidance, is it possible for this young woman to break social barriers on her own? Can she become the independent woman scholar that she has the potential to be?

Set in the early 1900s in rural Pennsylvania, follow this spitfire through an emotionally intense encounter with her dysfunctional family in a male-dominated world, a time before women had the right to vote.

Book one of The Women of Campbell County: Family Saga fiction series.