The Regret Series
The Regret Series is three-book women-loving-women series set in different decades and locations focusing on the women who must change their worlds, communities, or themselves to have a fulfilling life.
The first book, One Regret, begins at a cult in Vermont in the 1980s, the next book, The Worst Regret, takes place on Womyn’s Land in New Mexico in the 90s, and the third book, The Last Regret, ends on the street-performing avenues of Honolulu in the 2010s. The stories are of parents, children, lovers, straight, gay, trans, lesbian, and bi-, all struggling through the lies that have constrained them from becoming their best selves. There is love and hate, failure and triumph, and, of course, lots of regrets…so many regrets.
One Regret
It was the 1980s, another cold winter in Vermont, when Nice Collins, an investigator for Child Protective Services, is dispatched to The Ram and Lamb Farm to find out how a little girl broke her arm. But before Nice gets there, she’s forced off the remote dirt road into a snowbank and is saved by a woman driving a pickup truck and wearing Carhart’s. After Nice gets to the farm and meets the father, the mother returns home wearing a farmer’s smock instead of overalls and shaking her head so that Nice doesn’t acknowledge her.
Nice finds out why when later the mother asks Nice to help her leave the cult. Nice refuses to help until there’s a disaster at the farm, and Nice sees a mother’s love that Nice never knew existed. After that, Nice isn’t in control of the investigation, her job, or her heart. But before the mother loses her children to Child Protective or an anti-gay court ruling camouflaged as Father’s Rights, Nice must decide where her responsibility and loyalty lies. And, this time, her decisions need to come without more regrets.