Girl fight

Readers say…
“Last week I just needed to go to River Bend to be among old friends for a while. I never know how things will turn out, but I know that the characters will take care of each other, and that's very reassuring (when I'm having a complicated time in my own life.) I look forward to the each new volume to see what's happened to the River Bend folks.”
- Sharon B.

“I have saved several River Bend Chronicles volumes to read during stressy times. Just seeing the food appear on Lynn's kitchen table reminds me of when my three brothers and I used to convene with Mom in the kitchen during our youth and solve all our problems.”
- Linda J.

On a trip to Raleigh Lynn Powers meets with a gentleman who feels he is sitting on the board of a poorly run nonprofit. Lynn agrees to research the agency and give him her opinion. Her investigation raises concerns about the credibility of the nonprofit. As a follow-up to her review of the nonprofit, she travels to Raleigh to report her findings. She travels with Mars who is scheduled to speak with cadets in the highway patrol training program. They stop to visit Lynn’s friend and are in time to save him from an assassination attempt. Their role in saving him draws attention from the people who have organized the questionable nonprofit as a money laundering scheme. Those involved in the scheme target Mars for termination. This all adds excitement to the usual winter holiday activities in River Bend.

Renee Kumor was a stay-at-home mom for several years developing a personal ethic of community service. 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 management and service issues. The setting for the River Bend Chronicles series reflects her early life in Ohio and her later years in western North Carolina.