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by Renee Kumor (Author)
Readers have this to say about The River Bend Chronicles: "Take a chance on reading the River Bend Chronicles. You won't be disappointed." "Renee gets better with each book she writes." "I love this series of books. I feel like I am visiting a town I grew up in when I read another volume." The gang in River Bend find themselves dealing with aging parents and with a local nonprofit taking advantage of the elderly in the community. As Piper's father undergoes knee surgery, her mother, Glenda, is left alone at the farm seeming to suffer from a mental decline. Lynn and Dusty discover a dead man on the farm and the folks in River Bend become concerned with safety for the community's elder citizens when the investigation into the man's death leads to evidence of a local nonprofit cheating and scamming elder citizens. Strokes, surgery, scams and murder focus concern on the aging citizens and their safety with a little romance thrown in.
Author Biography
Renee Kumor has lived in North Carolina for almost forty years. The setting for the River Bend Chronicles series reflects her early life in Ohio and her later years in western North Carolina. She was a stay-at-home mom for several years developing a personal ethic of community service. Through the years as her children aged, she became active in the political and non-profit life of the community. She began writing a political opinion column for the local newspaper, but retired from writing when she announced her candidacy for local political office. After eight years as a county commissioner, she returned to non-profit service and began writing a monthly column for the newspaper on non-profit board service and management issues. Renee has been married to her husband for forty-eight years. They have four children and four grandchildren.
