In Miss Julia book 1 of 22, Miss Julia's husband
dies. Miss Julia was an obedient, sheltered, and childless wife. After 44 years
of marriage, she knew nothing about family finances; she didn’t even know how
to write a check. Her husband left a sizeable fortune and a child with his
mistress Hazel Marie Puckett. Pastor Ledbetter wanted to assume guardianship of
Julia and use her money to expand his church. Brother Vern Puckett wanted to do
something similar with Hazel Marie to take control of her presumed inheritance.
Apparently-weak women preyed on by paternalistic men.
Julia was a sheltered southern lady. “And, oh, I’d been proud of who I was. Julia DeWitt Springer, Wesley Lloyd Springer’s wife. Dumbest woman in town.” He kept her in the dark, gave her a small allowance, and told her what to think. “Now, after forty-four years of blissful ignorance of Wesley Lloyd’s activities, financial or otherwise, I settled down to enjoy the benefits of widowhood and a full checkbook, both of which I was mastering with hardly any problems at all.”
Julia’s antagonist was Presbyterian Pastor Larry Ledbetter who quoted Bible verses to defend his desire to assume guardianship of Julia and her fortune and excuse her dead husband’s decade-plus adulterous relation with Hazel Marie. The Pastor went so far as to hire a psychologist to declare Julia to be a nymphomaniac and incompetent.
Hazel Marie Puckett belonged to the Puckett clan, a notorious group of troublemakers. Brother Vern Puckett was a televangelist. “They beat the s**t outta me, ... And he said if I wasn’t going to be obedient…, he’d just had to keep Junior… Said I wasn’t fit to raise a child… He said he’d just keep Junior till I decided to submit to the Lord’s will.”
If you like to see nice women win, this is the book for you.
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