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Looking Out The Window: Victoria Caine Talks About Her Novel Cotton. Shares Chapter One And Gives Away A Smashwords Link To A Short Story

A Warm Welcome to Victoria Caine Victoria shares her favorite Bible verse, a Smashwords link to a free short story, "In The Shadow Of My Heart," and the first chapter of  Cotton. (See below). Favorite Bible Verse Ecclesiastes 3:1 To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. This verse was a big part of my first novel, Alvarado Gold, available on  Amazon Favorite Recipe Corn Bread  1 cup flour 1 cup corn meal 1 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder 3 tablespoons sugar 1 ½ cups milk 2 tablespoons melted shorting 1 egg Mix all ingredients together and bake at 425 degrees until golden brown. My mother, who is almost 104, wrote on the back of the recipe – Good luck Dear. Eat a piece for me – Love you, Mom About Cotton Running from a life of poverty, 16 year old Cotton Ramsey escapes the Savannah River bottomland to New York. Twenty years later, she has changed her name and runs a large