Dr. Rose Mary Stiffin's Books
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The Transformative Power of Authentic Storytelling
Indulge in the best realistic literary fiction with Rose Mary Stiffin's books, which stand out for their authenticity and relatability. Dr. Stiffin excels at creating captivating narratives that explore social issues and human behavior, leaving a lasting impact on her readers. Her masterful storytelling and thought-provoking plots invite you on a transformative adventure that will stir your emotions and ignite your imagination.
Five Stethoscopes
6 Secrets
Six women’s lives intertwine in medical school, as five of them fight to achieve their dream of becoming doctors—sometimes against overwhelming odds. Guiding them is their mentor, Dr. Elizabeth Hoslin, who nurtures and protects them like her own. But she, too, harbors a secret she can barely admit to herself.
Each woman carries a hidden truth. Connie locks hers away in a drawer. Glory’s past shadows her with a dark secret. Candi’s revelation crosses both ethical and moral boundaries. Amaryllis bears a secret that threatens to consume her. Jo doesn’t even realize she has one—until it surfaces, forcing her to decide if it will break her or make her stronger.
Five Stethoscopes, 6 Secrets is a gripping story of ambition, friendship, love, and betrayal. In this, her sixth novel, Rose Mary Stiffin delivers a compelling saga filled with secrets—some heartwarming, others chilling—that will stay with you long after the last page.
Casino Blues
This is the greatest gift Rose Stiffin offers in Casino Blues and her other critically acclaimed works of fiction: a compelling story with insight into our own lives and souls that entertains but also resonates in the memory long after the last page is read.—Wayne Christensen, editor of Imagine Magazine for Literature and the Arts.
Trudy is afraid. She is pregnant with her third child and can’t imagine her life after her baby is born. She is also addicted to crack cocaine and can’t reconcile being an addict with being a mother.
Dr. Buck Bowden understands Trudy’s pain. He wants to help her, but he craves power and prestige more than his desire to help her. Buck’s greed and position enable him to enlist Trudy in his drug-dealing scheme.
Thus begins a complex story of loss, regret, and tragedy that interweaves the lives of an array of complicated characters in this new novel by Rose Mary Stiffin, PhD. Stiffin explores the depths of addiction but also injects her prose with moments of grace and hope. Casino Blues is a startling, poignant drama that will linger in your mind and in your heart.
Walk in Bethel
A return to the Southern Gothic tradition and a testimony to her Southern roots, author Rose Mary Stiffin's debut novel, Walk in Bethel, is an earthy, spellbinding drama set in the sweltering Mississippi Delta. With skeletons in the closet and a myriad of back porch speculations, Stiffin writes in the vernacular of a multi-family epic that describes the darkest passages of the human heart, as well as its well-lit corridors of freedom, forgiveness, and love of family. Nashville is Reverend Carl Thompson's wife; she secretly considers prayers to be no more than wishes yet believes God walks the Earth. Though shes witnessed brutality, shes also seen equality and human kindness. Returning from her Christian duty to call upon the infirm in this case Belle Washington, a child-bride and runaway who has lost another child Nashville is dragged into a cotton field by two depraved white youths, the Ferguson brothers, and would have been brutally raped if it weren't for Mike Poe fending off her attackers. Their desperate trek home is fraught with terror as they try to avoid the revenge-seeking brothers. The chaos leads to a desperate sin without measure and consequences that will follow them to their graves. Years later, when Nashville's daughter Allene marries Robert Sutton, a man with a murderous past, she'll have no idea what truth will haunt him and what fate will provide. This unforgettable saga links three families, several generations, and is ultimately a story of survival, for what we can forgive is what we must never forget.
Groovin’ on the Half Shell
Carl Murray came to Memphis with his bride Gertrude, his dreams, and The Plan. With his voice, he would become an award – winning blues singer. His perfect marriage met with tragedy when he and Gertrude failed to accomplish their personal goal of being parents. Enter Jessamae Freeman. Single, easy on the eye, and interested. Any other man would have had the affair and be done with it. Not Carl Murray. Groovin’ on the Half-shell is Rose Mary Stiffin’s unforgettable novel of a man who shocked society and broke the laws of decency by not only falling in love with Jessamae but taking his mistress into the bosom of his home.
A Winter Friend
Franklin and Connie Darthard were happily married and the proud parents of five children. But the economic downturn for the Texas-based accountant forced him to make a decision that would destroy his home life. Connie is forced to move to her hometown of Clute, Texas, where she eventually meets her handsome, single neighbor, Stanley Driscoll. He has suffered a terrible loss and is hesitant to reach out to Connie. But soon, their mutual attraction cannot be ignored and they must face their reluctance in trusting and loving again. Connie’s daughter Kay meets Tyson Burkes III, a very rich and very spoiled teen from Cypress, Texas. He sweeps Kay off her feet. And gives her a baby he has no desire to have or keep. When she refuses the abortion, he abandons her. Enter Mike Lindsay, the godson of Stanley. He is drawn to Kay but recognizes that she might still have feelings for Tyson. He must let her discover his love in her own time and not be that knight in shining armor that Ty proved not to be.
Reflections
Reflections © 2012 Rose Mary Stiffin, PhD Warren Dwyer is a graduate student in computer engineering. He is brilliant, the spoiled only child of his doting but oft-times frustrated parents, as handsome as a model, and a drunk. But the innocent Cosby Tates sees only the obvious: he is tall, dark, and handsome. And she wants him, as only an eighteen-year-old innocent can desire an older man – with her total heart and soul. She rescues him, drunken and oblivious, from a wedding reception and takes him home. Perhaps, he would have been grateful if, upon awakening the next morning, he had an inkling of who she is! Ten years later, Warren is now sober, responsible, and junior partner in an expanding, successful bioengineering company. He is happily engaged to the beautiful photographer Dawn Redfield when he is assigned to attend a conference in Boise, Idaho. There, he sees the woman who has haunted his memories for a decade. But who is she and who is this little boy who, as Dawn claims, looks exactly like Warren? Reflections is a beautiful summer read, full of diverse and inspiring characters who stay with you long after their stories are over.
The Water Buffalo
and The Pink Flamingo
The only way out was to end her life. Becky Foster had no reason, in her young mind, to live. Except to feed the yowling stray cat. She has no job, has left her cheap apartment before she was evicted. She chooses death to end her pain and suffering by taking a handful of aspirin. She awakens, not to the symphony of angels or the snarling of devils, but to a ‘gypsy’ doctor, Razvan Fieraru, in a hospital room. She did not die. There was no escape from her abusive ex-husband, Freddy. Her absent mother Lainey is off looking for a man to spoil her with his material wealth. She has no one to turn to.
Enter Jerome Broadnax, an elderly Black man who lives just outside the tiny hamlet of Indianola, Mississippi. He has made the unusual habit of visiting whoever is in the hospital room his wife Mary Alice died in several years ago. It is in that room that he meets the young White Becky Foster. Through the intervention of Dr. Fieraru, Jerry provides the young woman a safe haven to remove herself from that dangerous precipice. All she needs, he reckons is time to heal and to be given unconditional love.
Stiffin has styled the principal characters after the behavior of animals. Jerry, large, muscular, and protective, is the water buffalo. With her initial fragility and definite beauty, Becky is the pink flamingo. Razvan is no gypsy. He is a leader, protective, and willing to defend, even to committing the ultimate act. He is the wolf. Other characters, both principal and minor, have attributes to other ‘zoo’ animals.
The Water Buffalo and The Pink Flamingo is Stiffin’s seventh novel; once more she delivers a set of believable, human characters. It is a work with a wealth of drama, romance, and intrigue, as the reader learns the fate of each of the ‘animals in the zoo’. Once more, Stiffin delivers.
Experience the Journey
Unlock a world of depth, emotion, and self-discovery by delving into Dr. Rose Mary Stiffin's novels. Grab your book and read through the pages of her realistic fiction to experience the power of transformative storytelling.