The Bad-Rumored Coal Miner

The second must-read book of the trendy Audrey and Lara Hawthorne serial is bound to keep you on your toes. A one-in-a-million story begins: Bertha, the daughter of Lara’s Aunt Doris, is passing marriageable age and never asked on dates. Bertha desires to wed the most-rumored cad around. The whole matter has her mother and dad up in arms. Mother Audrey implores Lara to try to amend Bertha’s mind even with her feelings engaged for Raul Barkin. Brother Hem Hawthorne eyes the infuriated Bertha and slams in the door to brawl with Cousin Lara. Sick of hearing rumors of that mine, he intends right then to get his coal mine going. No one is surprised, and Bertha is hopping mad hearing her cousin, Lara, sticking up for her mother and aunt “to quit the bad-guy.” She stomps out of the house. The naïve and virginal Bertha never dreams she will be raped near the coal mine…