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Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson (Grand Central Publishing, June 8, 2010)

After a chance, or not so chance, meeting of a fortune teller at an airport, warning Ro Grandee it’s either her or her husband, Ro tries to shoot her husband, missing him and injuring the dog she loves more than life.  This gypsy’s warning takes Ro Grandee, once Rose Mae Lolley, on the trip of a lifetime, searching for a mother who abandoned her as a young girl, but who has been keeping track of her all these years, and watching over her, like the saints that Rose Mae so often summons.  Backseat Saints tells the story of Rose Mae Lolley and Ro Grandee as Rose Mae Lolley escapes from her abusive father and Fruition, Alabama, turns to the arms of another abusive man, Thom Grandee, after her high school boyfriend vanishes, and how she finds her freedom.   The spousal abuse Thom inflicts on Ro is often difficult to bear, but Ro is strong, and eventually finds a way back to herself with the help of a guardian saint she never knew she had.