Dee Britt's Novels, The Fireside Series
All books in the Fireside Series are set in an assisted living center in
Atlanta, Georgia; however, they all stand alone without losing the flow of the series.
Fireside: The James Johnson Story is the first book in the Fireside series. The book is set in Atlanta, Georgia, in an assisted Living Center where wonderful unique characters bring life to this makeshift home. Cops eat with hookers and janitors eat with C.E.O.s, while they are led by their beloved, red-headed rebellious nurse who covers her tattoos with a lab jacket by day and shoots tequila on the dance floor by night. Each book focuses on a new resident, just arriving to Fireside. This book focuses on James Johnson, a black sharecropper's son who fell in love with his high school sweetheart, Estelle, who was a petite white girl. The book has chapters that reflect back to their love and their life together trying to make it in a world where blacks and whites were discouraged from interacting, much less dating. He landed in Fireside after his beloved Estelle died and he lost his leg, leaving him unable to totally care for himself. His one desire was to rehab and return to the apartment, he and Estelle called home. Will he achieve his goal?
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Fireside: The Wes Lyons Story is the second book in the Fireside series. The book is set in Atlanta, Georgia, in an assisted Living Center where wonderful unique characters bring life to this makeshift home. They are led by their beloved, red-headed rebellious nurse who covers her tattoos with a lab jacket by day and shoots tequila on the dance floor by night. Each book focuses on a new resident, just arriving to Fireside. This sophomore offering focuses on Wes Lyons a young hippie from the 70’s who inherited his father’s church. Wes grew the church and quickly became an international evangelical celebrity. After the untimely death of his son, Wes lost everything and found himself alone and living at Fireside. The book has chapters that reflect back to his life as a young hippie and preaching phenonenon. Will Wes find his way back to success and affluence?