Song of Silver Lake

Synopsis Song of Silver Lake, vol. 2, book 1A Nicholas Daughter Young Grace lived a fractured, hopeless life as a prostitute most of her 17 years. Now that was all behind her. As the foster daughter of retired judge Nick Nickolas in Silver Lake, Idaho, Grace finally had a "Dad". She had a loving home, and security. Grace even had her framed photograph on the mantle with Dad's three birth daughters, Holly, Noel, and Gloria. "I'm a Nicholas Daughter!" The young woman's newfound family...
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Synopsis Song of Silver Lake, vol. 2, book 1A Nicholas Daughter Young Grace lived a fractured, hopeless life as a prostitute most of her 17 years. Now that was all behind her. As the foster daughter of retired judge Nick Nickolas in Silver Lake, Idaho, Grace finally had a "Dad". She had a loving home, and security. Grace even had her framed photograph on the mantle with Dad's three birth daughters, Holly, Noel, and Gloria. "I'm a Nicholas Daughter!" The young woman's newfound family situation was shaken, when, during school she defended a friend from a bully and was expelled for fighting. Dad didn't handle it well. "I'm very disappointed in you, Grace." Grace didn't handle it well either. "My father fired me." Not willing to live where, she now was convinced, she wasn't wanted anymore, the young woman ran away, a thousand miles away, to Glendive, Montana, where she found work with a nice man named Fats at Fat's Caf. Fats also owned Fat's Casino, Fat's Pawn Shop, and Fat's Gentlemen's Club. Fats also was a drug dealer. Judge Nick Nicholas in Silver Lake, and Fats in Glendive, couldn't be more dissimilar men, except in one matter-they both loved Grace like a daughter. What was she, a Nicholas daughter, or a Fat's daughter? The ensuing weeks brought out the essence of the young woman's inner being. Synopsis Song of Silver Lake, vol. 2, book 2Fiddle Girl Demonstrating a giftedness in violin, Grace discussed with her Harvard educated friend, blind Derry London, the feasibility of attending an elite institution like Julliard School of Music in New York. Derry promised to make a few phone calls, which put her in contact with Mr. Carlton Astor, founder of Astor Plastics in Seattle, also a member of the Julliard board of regents. To Derry's surprise, Mr. Astor seemed more interested in the blind woman's 7 year old niece, Ruth, than he was in Grace, the prospective Julliard student. He even insisted on flying to Silver Lake in his private aircraft to take Derry and Ruth to dinner. What could possibly be Carlton Astor's interest in little Ruth? While Derry researched Julliard School of Music, Grace was invited to tour with the McCoy family, a local amateur bluegrass group. The Real McCoy's annually closed up their Silver Lake mechanics shop to make a month long circuit to county fairs across several states. Grace, first chair in her high school orchestra, but a novice to the Bluegrass fiddle, was shocked when Pop McCoy entered her in the Lexington, Kentucky Bluegrass competition. Loyalties between the fiddle girl and The Real McCoy's were tested as bizarre events unfolded during this month long trip.