Caged
Caged is the third book in the Nandria series.On July 4, 1940, Southwest Missouri was hot with tempers and plots of revenge on the county fair's daredevil motorcycle rider, Marvin, Nandria and her 9-month-old daughter, Rose.
The young man in the scraggly army uniform piqued Nandria's curiosity. Riding his motorcycle to her father-in-law's farm late one evening just before the 4th of July, 1940, he might know something of her husband, Captain Will Minnick — missing for weeks on an intelligence mission in war-ravaged Europe.
Sgt. Dol Lippert admitted to the gathered Boonetown neighbors that he had known Will, but hadn't been with him for some time. Yet he seemed to know much more, including the daredevil motorcyclist who rode upside down in a steel cage at the county fair.
Marvin the Marvelous was a reluctant daredevil, plagued with debt after his brother's crippling accident. He had little patience for Nandria's efforts to teach the young Black children of Boonetown to read — convinced that building their confidence would only cause trouble.
But when plots driven by anger and revenge begin to surface, the lives of Nandria, her nine-month-old biracial daughter, and Marvin himself come to depend on the very children he had doubted.
“I got your new book, Caged, on Monday and had it read by Tuesday. I couldn't put it down."
— R. Wiser, Oregon