How Grows A Green Rose

Two women and one child named Rose. One family. A century of secrets.Rose Beth Greenhaw and Steven Weberhauser live on opposite sides of the United States. She lives in Savannah, Georgia and he lives in Seattle, Washington. Their mutual belief in the idea of the restoration of gun sanity after a school shooting in Florida brings them together in a massive demonstration in Washington, D.C. He saves her life there after the crowd panics at the sound of a possible gunshot. The two develop a cross country romance. It is so flamingly hot and beneficial that Steven quits his attorney's job and drives out to marry Beth, his Southern fiancée.There is still a wedding and honeymoon to plan in just a few days as Beth, in her impetuousness hasn't wished to delay the ceremonies even remotely. Steven arrives but is a bit confused as to Beth's sudden division of priorities. Though the wedding is still set for the very next weekend, Beth has explained that she and her mama have found an oil painting which has embroiled the family in a search to clarify their very mysterious genealogy; no one in the family knows the reasons behind their Southern location and vast wealth. The woman in the oil painting is nearly identical in looks to Beth. Who is it? Is she the person to unlock the mystery of the Greenhaw past?Steven has no problem with doing the search simultaneous to the wedding happenings.They find out that this possible antecedent of hers is a fanatical proslavery ancestor who had been a spy for the Confederacy. Beth nearly dies in the utter shame of it. Though she lives in the South, she and her family have always been activists and she believes with her entire heart that black lives matter incredibly! Her one employee, a dear friend too, is black as well.Will Steven and Beth even get married? Beth's emotions are now so in shambles that Steven wonders. Stumbling through with the help of family, friends and a very capable wedding planner, Beth and Steven do wed and Steven's office is set up. The honeymoon location is established as Tahiti.But Beth is still very angry, anxious and depressed about having found Rose O'Neal Greenhow as the strongest candidate for her family's source of wealth. She despises the woman as a Confederate spy who yields to no one in her rigid belief that slavery is fundamental to the industrial, plantation way of Southern life. Beth thinks that belief is a grotesquery and emotionally can't handle that this might be the grand matriarch of the family.Steven has to take over the search because it is so painful and devastating to Beth. And when he finds that this Confederate spy drowns in an attempt to get gold from the sale of her book along with likely Civil War changing documents to her Confederate allies - she fails as her gold and documents go into River Cape Fear with her seemingly - Steven tells Beth that the search has ended without a conclusion as to Beth's family's genealogical line and wealth.He expects Beth to be relieved and happy to start a new search with some other candidate or maybe even just forget about the search entirely. Instead, Beth goes berserk as she is horribly disappointed that there is no conclusion. She rages that she hates the oil portrait which spawned the search initially and goes to the attic to destroy it. As she is about to exit the attic, painting in hand, she slips and it falls into her lap face up. She stares at it malevolently one last time.And she spies a clue painted into the portrait in the background. She had seen it as she had earlier cleaned up the cellar in the overseer's house, their new home now. She races down to the attic and finds it. What is that clue? Does it hold the answers to all the questions?There's a vase of green roses. Why green roses?Read "How Grows A Green Rose" and join with Rose Beth and Steven to find the answers to the most important questions of Rose Beth's life.