Today I am writing my synopsis for An Awful Providence, a 64,000 work family history now completed and ready to submit for publication. My editor, Katie O'Sullivan has worked diligently to support the project to completion.  I am the only one who could write this family story since the source is unique to me - 150 letters I inherited, read and reread. I discovered gems on the rereads that I had missed the first time! And here is the protagonist, Harriet Rice Barrett, circa 1837. The Rice homestead riddled with typhus fever, two brothers dead, newly married to Amos Barrett and sporting a new wig.