"Everything is going to be better when Daddy comes back. God is going to send him back to get all this mess in line including your momma and her nasty ways." Patsy said.

"She your momma too. Don't give all that craziness just to me." Ann said, jokingly.

Ann Simmons would have had a challenging childhood no matter what. No one can endure physical and emotional abuse and come out unscathed. Her mother, Sister Nadeen Simmons, Head Usher of Great Trials MB Church, expects her girls to act like the young ladies they are both at church and at home. She unhesitatingly unleashes her wrath on them when they don't behave accordingly. When Ann's father abandons her and her sisters, and with her older sister Patsy off for the summer, Ann reaches out for comfort in the most unlikely of places. But this secret affair will have unintended consequences that she never could have prepared for.

Reprobate Ways: The Unveiling of Ann is the second in a trilogy about the Simmons women by author Felicia Brookins.