The GOOD HOSTAGE — Jerrie Oughton

What if you go to your volunteer job and are taken hostage for eighteen hours? What if the perps make you their go-to gal? And, what if you survive, even save the day, only to find out that glory can cut like glass?
Thelma Wooten, retired high school Spanish teacher, experiences all of the above. The challenges of teaching and parenthood did not begin to match her life as it plays out now in the small eastern North Carolina town of Whitleyville. Bundle in an angry daughter, a hearing-impaired husband along with her own arthritic knees and she has challenges enough. She doesn't need two kidnappers and their halfwit buddy, Wafford Buncombe, but she's got them all.
Award-winning children's author Jerrie Oughton stretches out for a debut adult novel about life on the fast track in small town America.