Doris Walker-Bratton

Kellyville Secrets Doris Walker-Bratton

"Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited" (Stephen White).

Even in the 1960s, secrets were the hardest things to keep especially for the three well-known families in the small town of Kellyville where everyone knows everyone. Kellyville may be small, but the secrets are big. The influential families within the small town consisted of the Bentops, the Shays, and the Seeds. When you are busy protecting your image and the family secrets, you risk being pulled deeper into a web of lies, deceit, and anything far from the truth.

The Shays: Being born with a disability in the 1960s didn't make life any better for Betty Shay. Despite having Down syndrome, her mother wouldn't allow her to feel defeated even if that meant teaching her herself. However, everyone has their breaking point. After a horrific ordeal, Betty and her mother moved away with all of their secrets.

The Bentops: As the daughter of Pearl and Todd Bentops, Sealee Bentops is able to experience the luxurious life of a black entrepreneur in the 1960s. After an unexpected death in the family, do the hidden secrets die with them or resurface with unanswered questions? Who knew that Sealee's twenty-first birthday would be the most changing moment of her life?

The Seeds: A forbidden love and old family secrets forced Skyrra Seed to cut all ties with the one individual she loved and move away. When hiding someone else's secrets jeopardizes your happiness, it will only lead to resentment even if it's toward your own parents. Being a single parent was by force and not a choice for Skyrra. But now that Skyrra's daughter, Jackie, has grown up. What havoc will the remnants of her mother's past secrets that are slowly being revealed create?

What happens when the lives of three families become so intertwined that they appear as one web of the untold? Will Betty, Sealee, and Skyrra solve the mystery within the Kellyville families? Will Kellyville ever be the same when all of the cards are out on the table?