In the late 1920s, a young, Southern woman named Emma began a journey. When her mother's expectations came against her engagement to James, a penniless yet ambitious author, Emma had to choose between her family and the man she loved. Searching for true happiness with James, Emma is instead awakened to the burdensome reality of everyday life and the consequences of her choices. Will Emma overcome the many physical and emotional obstacles that set themselves against her? Shared from her heart and seasoned with adventure and suspense, Memoirs of a Fallen Oak follows Emma as she remembers the hardships that she struggled with during her life. Memoirs of a Fallen Oak is a potent combination of many different experiences in family, marriage, losing loved ones, pregnancy, and motherhood that many women, young and old, can relate to in a personal manner or in the lives of others they know.