Coming Home to Morningside

Flora McIntyre is going home. She boards her train, overcome with relief as she leaves behind the ordeal of having reunited with her sister after fifty years.Rachel Benson is running away, for the second time. When she steps onto a train going north, her life changes forever.Gabrielle Carrington is a runaway bride. From the moment she boards the train that will take her away from everyone and everything she has ever known, she becomes a different person, a person whom she can respect.Coming Home to Morningside is the story of three women from disparate walks of life who come together to find their common ground and to form an unlikely friendship.Flora, having rebelled against her austere upbringing, embraced life as a flower child of the sixties. She has recently lost her beloved husband and has reunited with her sister.Rachel, who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and was all but invisible, has just turned eighteen. She is on the run, but this time not from a mother who does not see or want her, but rather from an abusive man who preys on young girls.Gabi, an entitled princess, is on the run from a domineering family who is insisting that she marry an equally entitled man whom they have chosen for her. Because they will not hear her protests and do not care that she doesn't love the man, her only escape is to run.Due to nature's inclination and perhaps the guidance of those looking down on them and very possibly synchronicity, these three women are brought together on a train and later in a hotel where they are temporarily stranded. Recognizing their fear and desperation, Flora invites the two young women to come home with her. They create an unexpected family, one that includes Flora's grandson, Camden, and her chauffeur, Luke, another of her rescue projects. The frumpy woman who turns out to be anything but, ends up giving the two younger women something invaluable. Instead of simply finding the escape they had been seeking, they are accepted for who they are. They too give Flora a great gift, one of appreciation and love and deep friendship. With one another's help, they all find what they didn't know they were looking for. Rachel finds her courage. Gabi finds her voice. And Flora finds a way to rebuild her life. They are indeed kindred spirits who have found home.