Mary Monroe, acclaimed bestselling author of God Don't Like Ugly and The Upper Room returns with the masterful story of a woman who's ready to take back her life-if she can figure out how... GONNA LAY DOWN MY BURDENS In the sweltering little town of Belle Helene, Alabama, Carmen...
Carmen Taylor's life spins out of control when her friend Desiree begins dating Chester Sheffield, the man Carmen has loved for years, and when Desiree gets pregnant, Carmen commits a reckless crime of passion.
Monroe's Gonna Lay Down My Burdens opens with a bang when Carmen Taylor intervenes in a violent lovers' quarrel between her friends Chester and Desiree, and Chester winds up dead. Most of the novel is told in flashback, following Carmen and Chester's ill-fated attraction to one...