Followill Series by Erica Chilson

Imagine the rage… Imagine the rage from being the only child of foundlings, one raised across the street from where I’ve spent my entire life, and the other raised in a prominent family but refuses to tell me her maiden name. Yeah, try answering security questions without that important detail.Imagine the rage from learning everything you thought you knew was nothing but secrets covered in lies, as an entire town enables my momma... moreImagine the rage… Imagine the rage from being the only child of foundlings, one raised across the street from where I’ve spent my entire life, and the other raised in a prominent family but refuses to tell me her maiden name. Yeah, try answering security questions without that important detail.Imagine the rage from learning everything you thought you knew was nothing but secrets covered in lies, as an entire town enables my momma.Imagine the rage after losing my daddy, only to have to take care of a fragile southern lady who doesn’t know the definition of responsibility.Imagine the rage from having the only person who meant anything taken from me. My best friend. My math teacher. My soon-to-be stepdaddy only a few years older than me, who picked my momma over me.Imagine the rage of witnessing a wedding being planned that costs more than a four-year higher education degree, a down payment on a house, and a new car, with a wedding party that wouldn’t fit packed inside a school bus. All because Momma hitched her wagon to Followill’s most prominent son, after I’ve worked to support us both since Daddy died.Imagine the rage of swallowing your pride, as a young woman of color forced to be the Maid of Dishonor at a wedding hosted at a plantation, because it’s the groom’s ancestral home that will look pretty in the pictures.Imagine a momma who stole my man, then decided to get married less than a week before graduation, smack-dab during finals, and hours before my eighteenth birthday, with the entire wedding party filled with my furious classmates.I’m Rayna Scott, and that rage burns so bright, Momma no longer casts me in her shadow. less

Life changes in less than a week…Rayna Scott was showcased as her momma’s maid of dishonor, learned everything she thought wasn’t as it seemed, caught her boyfriend in the act during the reception, managed to graduate at the top of her class, reached the age of majority with little fanfare, and was deflowered in the most baffling of ways…Those were just the highs... moreLife changes in less than a week…Rayna Scott was showcased as her momma’s maid of dishonor, learned everything she thought wasn’t as it seemed, caught her boyfriend in the act during the reception, managed to graduate at the top of her class, reached the age of majority with little fanfare, and was deflowered in the most baffling of ways…Those were just the highs.Life as Rayna knew it ended in the most violent of lows, forcing her to swallow the stubborn pride her daddy instilled and welcome the torturous emotional side her momma tried so very hard to draw to the surface.Falling off her high horse, Rayna figuratively breaks every bone, battered by life lesson after life lesson, learning the importance of loyalty and how it binds you into a family much tighter than blood ever could.Followill Loyalty less