Family Secrets - Softcover

"Family Secrets" is the third part of the family saga involving the Coleman and Black Families. Louise Pierce Perkins is determined to destroy Emily Black's family, especially Vivian Black who married the man of Louise's dreams. Just when you think that you have Louise figured out, in "Family Secrets" you will learn the extent that some people will go to hurt others. Louise uses members of her mother's family who will use extreme measures, including murder, for revenge. Manipulation and money can only control a situation so far and Louise learns a hard lesson about who to trust.

Mary Jo Stanley was born and raised in southern WV by the daughter of Hungarian immigrants and the son of a coal miner. She attended public schools and college in southern WV and knows the coal miner family's way of life. At one time, McDowell County, where she was raised, was known as the "Nation's Coal Bin" since it provided so much high grade coal to make steel needed by the US. She has written this family saga so that others may know the hardships and pains that families endured while their loved ones mined the coal. As with all communities, there were always intrigue and drama. She has re-created some of the drama via mine disasters, deaths, and the vastness of the disparity between classes in a mining camp.