Denitta Ward, author of the Somewhere series, writes historical fiction from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. After decades of writing legal briefs and contracts, Denitta picked up her pen and decided she'd write the stories she really wanted to tell - about young women discovering their own resilience in times of transition.
"A vivid portrait of Kansas City in the Roaring Twenties. ... Well done" - KIRKUS REVIEWS
"This is an intriguing Cinderella-style story set in 1920s Kansas. The city is on the cusp of radical change, but it is divided by class and color...This is a deep and complex story with credible characters that pull at the heartstrings. Halfway through, I began to wonder how it could end. Ward's final pages did not disappoint." - HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY
Finalist, The Wishing Shelf Book Award
"A Discovered Diamond" by Discovering Diamonds
New York Review of Books, April 19, 2018 and August 3, 2018
Somewhere Still, Denitta Ward's debut novel is poignant and compelling, a vividly drawn portrait of a young woman making her way in an era of opulence and abundance, at a time of great division and separation. Somewhere Still teems with memorable and resilient characters and takes you back to the Roaring Twenties to a city known as Paris on the Plains, alive with jazz clubs, speakeasies, and a burgeoning Prohibition bootleg trade. This time and place also deliver a rich tale of women's social groups changing their corner of the world, the birth of baseball's Negro League, and fast changes that bring traditional social mores into question.
In this coming-of-age story, we see the thin reed upon which many lived in the Roaring Twenties and we witness the power of love and its ability to heal and mend divides. Somewhere Still is written with tenderness as it demonstrates the transformative power of the human spirit to build bridges and extend a helping hand.
Written as a gift to her own mother, the author tells of a society in transition which serves as a backdrop for this story of the price of love, the hurts that are slowest to heal, and a certain kind of infinite redemption found when women band together across race and class. Come on this wonderful journey into Somewhere Still.
Passionate about history and with a lifelong interest in the transformative power of women when they band together, Denitta is a member of the Women's Fiction Writers Association, the Historical Novel Society, and Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers.
Prohibition Cocktails: 21 Secrets & Recipes debuted on National Cocktail Day, as the nonfiction companion to Somewhere Still. Filled with the origin stories and recipes of 21 of Prohibition's most delightful cocktails, this is a book to be shared. The perfect gift!
In The Works: "Somewhere Sometime" is a story of timeless love and how far we'll go to find a lost love. Historical Fiction with time travel.
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