Jacqueline R Hendricks

Rooted in Indiana cornfields, They Came to Pick Tomatoes takes the reader across the indefinable boundaries of race, loyalty and unbridled love. Plucky Jill Havlicek, a cheerleader and church volunteer, has outgrown her high school boyfriend, her small minded town and in some ways her own time. Sett...

Was Jill born under a wandering star compelling her by the need to go? Leaving the cornfields to find the other. To stay meant to surrender to a perceived enemy, to be like those who seemed stuck, frozen in the same amount of time that held no reward, no openings, no hope, but only a continuation of...

Six and one-half years as a guest of Uncle Sam at the Iron Hotel, actually Camp Fed, was the reality show of Jacqueline Hendricks’ life, but not televised. She tried to get off the “island,” to plead her plight to many. She decided to illustrate her condition through pen with an adopted pen pal – Se...

Book Two of a trilogy, Jill continues her journey, her love story, graduating from college, then making decisions to extricate herself from the cornfields of Indiana, her roots and her home. She makes decisions based on her love for the men in her life and her desire to make a life that is best for ...

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