Each day this month, meet a Rhode Island author! Comment on the blog post for a chance to win our Grand Prize (a $200 Amazon gift card) or our Bonus Prize (a $100 Amazon gift card). Some authors are giving away books, too – your comment enters you into their drawing as well. (See details at the bottom of this page)
Mercy is a survivor. Growing up in foster care, she always played it safe by taking the right path. She is the “good” girl. Or, at least she was…
Even her younger sister using drugs and living on the street did not distract her. But, when Lily turns up just long enough to give birth to a premature baby, Mercy faces decisions that rock her world.
During a lonely night in jail, she faces the past and makes a decision that gives her life new direction.
Mercy thought her childhood was the hard part. But she is about to find out that the road to adulthood holds lots of surprises. Can she shake off the events from her past, or will they continue to shape the future? The world has always played hardball with Mercy.
Now, will she have the life she wants — or — will life have Mercy?
Barbara has generously offered to gift a copy of Have Mercy to one lucky winner. Your comment on this post enters you into her drawing as well as the Grand Prize and Bonus Prize drawings.
Barbara Ann Whitman is a seasoned social worker with experience as a child abuse and neglect investigator. She has worked professionally with hundreds of foster children.
Her writing has been featured in all five anthologies produced by the Association of Rhode Island Authors: “A Changing Sea” in Shoreline (2016), “Galilee” in Under the Thirteenth Star (2017), “A Crown of Diamonds” in Selections (2018), “My Secret” in Past, Present, and Future (2019), and “My Lover Waits” in Hope (2020). Follow Barbara’s blog at rhodiebean.com
She has been a Sunday School teacher, a Youth group Leader, a parenting instructor, a Big Sister and a Girl Scout Leader. Barbara Ann founded a Meetup Group for active seniors in 2015. She is a member of the Old Fiddlers Club of Rhode Island and sings in her church choir. She serves on the board of directors for Gaits of Harmony.
You can leave a comment on each day’s blog post during November, for up to 30 chances to win. Daily giveaways by authors will be drawn one week after publication. The author will contact the winner to coordinate delivery. Grand Prize and Bonus Prize will be drawn and announced on December 8.
Martha Reynolds Writes 
Working in the foster care system I am very interested to read this book.
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You peaked my interest with the title and how it relates to the main characters name and her situation.
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I have my own copy and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Your book sounds very intriguing and the cover also looks intriguing I really like it. Thank you so very much for sharing about your book, I will be adding it to my TBR list. You are a new to me author, it is very nice meeting you. Have a Great rest of the week and stay safe.
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Hi! I won this book from a previous Rhode Island Authors’ giveaway. I enjoyed it. I wrote a review at Goodreads. Thank you again.
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This sounds great!
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I like the cover and the blurb sounds good. Thanks for the chance.
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Wow this book sounds very emotional indeed. Thank you for sharing and nice to meet you. Love meeting new authors and discovering new books to add to my TBR.
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Can’t begin to imagine the lives you have entered through your social work, lives that gave you the insight and feelings to write Mercy! A true-life fiction for sure!
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Have Mercy sounds intense and worthwhile for sure. Thank you!
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This book sounds like such a powerful story.
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Sounds like a great read.
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I would love for Mercy to have her HEA.
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An important theme. I hope to read it.
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My heart hurts for these kids that age out of the system and have no where to go. I want know Mercy’s story.
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I have this in my collection! Now I’ll have to be sure to catch up on your short stories in the anthologies.
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Sounds like your background as a social worker will give us good insight into MERCY.
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Curious about Mercy
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Sounds great, i want to read it.
I hope MERCY makes the right decisions.
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I have a little glimpse into the foster care world. My husband and became emergency, kinship foster parents for an entire year to three siblings, who at the time were 11, 13, and 14. That was certainly an interesting year for us.
I would enjoy reading your book.
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I like the cover
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