About the Book
This magnificent novel is a fiction filled with passion, thrills, and adventures, and it includes a flair of religious beliefs beliefs that demonstrate strong characteristics in the characters.
After over fifty-seven years of composition (intense meditation and creativity), the author brings to life a well-developed Beasley family saga (six generations) that relied on hard work, courage, dreams, and God to give them strength to escape impoverishment, deadly romances, triumphs, and tribulations. Female matrons paved the way as traditions molded passionate hearts. High expectations to rise above poverty with rewards (happiness and wealth) were driven via romance, strong family connectivity, and education. As they embarked upon new territory internal and external to the Mississippi Delta they survived floods and economic downfalls, wars and societal upheavals, untimely deaths, and heartfelt relationships resulting in pleasure and deep conflicts even murder. The author was born in such an environment where only the strongest survived!
So be it as it was mysteries unfold like unto diamonds in the rough in this fictional publication. An in-depth creation of characters & events gives life to individuals trapped in an era of American history via which they are freed as readers are enlightened & entertained. A vivid imagination allows readers to peek into a bittersweet, mysterious realm where secrets are told spreading like wildfire among tall cotton and catfish ponds.
An Unclaimed Race of people (Mulattos) created during slavery survives enduring journeys in spite of many evils, triumphs, and tribulations. Before burials in soil from whence they d risen (disappearing like unto dust whirling across a broad delta plain), four of life s secrets to happiness became their golden treasures: (1) Eros Love; (2) Storge Love; (3) Philia Love; and (4) Agape Love in After The Flames Have Cooled.
About the Author :
Barbara J. Johnson, the fifth of twelve whole (seven half) siblings, was born on a family-owned cotton farm (August 2, 1955) in Vaughan, MS (Yazoo County), to the parents of Wilson J. Washington, Sr., and Dorothy L. (Stevens) Washington. She graduated from Benton High School (1973) and earned a Business Diploma from Draughon s Business College, Jackson, MS (April 1976). Afterwards during 1982 1990 she attended evening classes at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, OH, where she studied computer science, accounting, and business policies. From 1990 to 1998, she attended and graduated from Park University, Parkville, MO, with a Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree in Management/Psychology (Minor). Her master s degree (MD) program (studies) in project management (PM) is via the University of Management & Technology (UMT) in Arlington, VA.
From 1971 1981, Barbara worked for the Yazoo County Summer Youth Program in Vaughan, MS; two insurance companies (Jackson, MS & Memphis, TN); two consumer lending affiliates (Leesville, LA & Memphis, TN); and a bank in Dayton, OH.
On March 3, 1982, Barbara was employed by the United Air Force/Avionics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, as a civil servant and retired on February 3, 2006, as a senior financial management officer/federal acquisitions professional (APDP-Level III) [certified by the United States Air Force and Defense Acquisitions University (DAU) at Fort Belvoir, VA] due to her Department of Defense (DoD) training, education, awards, and superior ratings/experiences in budgeting, contracting, procurement, finance, and cost-estimating. She concluded her additional public service career (2006 2020) on April 15, 2020. She served as a municipal government fiscal officer (FO) in Preble County, OH; a sub-teacher in Madison County, MS; and a federal budget & finance analyst with three contractors Ohio, Florida & Virginia.
Barbara s first novel, A Mississippi Family, with Mary Sikora, was published by Holloway House Publishers, Los Angeles, CA (1986). She married Norman R. Johnson on May 8, 1976 present. They have 2 children, 7 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren, a godson, several god-grandchildren, and great-god-grandchildren. She enjoys writing, art illustrating, fishing, music, anthropology, and antiquing.
