Traitors and Deserters

The War Between the States has been going on for almost three years and shows no signs of stopping. When Elise befriends a man whose son chose to fight with the South, her best friend, Vera, becomes angry. She turns her back and tells the other students at school not to play with Elise.
As the months pass, Elise wonders if she'll ever win back her friends. And as the war finally nears its end, what will she and her brother, Daniel, do when the discover a secret that could destroy Vera's world?
The full-time writer is the author of over 50 published books under her own name and also scores of ghostwritten books.
Her books have been favorably reviewed in Affair de Coeur, Coffee Time Romance, Romance Reader at Heart, and The Romance Studio magazines, and her short fiction has garnered a number of first prizes in local writing contests.
Norma Jean is the founder of the Professionalism in Writing School, which was held annually in Tulsa for fourteen years. This writers' conference, which closed its doors in 1996, gave many writers their start in the publishing world.
A gifted teacher, Norma Jean has taught a variety of writing courses at local colleges and community schools, and is a frequent speaker at writers' seminars around the country. For ten years, she taught on staff for the Institute of Children's Literature. She has served as artist-in-residence at grade schools, and for two years taught a staff development workshop for language arts teachers in schools in Northeastern Oklahoma.
In 2010, she made the decision (along with many other authors) to leave the world of traditional publishing and become an indie author. Even though the learning curve was as she puts it "straight up," it was a decision she has never regretted.
As she says, "Having the last say in my cover art and story content is pure joy to this author."
Her titles can be found here: njnotations.myshopify.com