Those Pearly Gates (Homegrown)

Life is moving on for Imogene Lavender, and reluctantly she leaves her farm in rural Georgia to follow her new husband, Reverend Peddigrew, into town to live in the parsonage. Her struggle to adjust is not what she expects when she begins feeling the all-too-perfect presence of the Reverend's late wife. The move also leaves Imo's niece Loutishie resentful and stretching her faith to find a way back to her beloved farm. Imo's daughter, Jeanette — a beautician at the Kuntry Kut 'n' Kurl married to a reverend of her own — is so afraid of becoming a "church lady" that she secretly enters an erotic bull-riding contest. But a devastating event forces Jeanette to see that beauty is not just skin deep, and when Imo's neighbors suffer a great tragedy, she learns what it really means to be a reverend's wife by helping to restore their faith.

Prologue

One Classics

Two Store Up Your Treasures in Heaven

Three Dreaming of Shoney's

Four Lost That Lovin' Feeling

Five First Kiss

Six Romantic Fishing

Seven Rattlesnake in the House

Eight Possum and Taters

Nine Betrayal

Ten Jealous Bone

Eleven Faith Lift

Twelve Welcome Wagon

Thirteen Here Comes the Rain

Fourteen My Dusty!

Fifteen Funeral Dirge

Sixteen Soul Rainbow

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

©andcopy 2005 by Julie Cannon