A Thousand Voices Book

SUMMARY: Adopted at thirteen, Dell Jordan was loved, mentored, and encouraged to pursue her passion for music. Now, at twenty, after a year abroad with a traveling symphony, a scholarship to Julliard is within reach. But underneath Dell's smoothly polished surface lurk mysteries from the past. Why did her mother abandon her? Who was her father? Are there faces somewhere that look like hers-blood relatives she's never met?

Determined to find answers, Dell sets off on a secret journey into Oklahoma's Kiamichi Mountains, drawn by the only remaining link to her origins- a father's Native American name on her birth certificate. In the voices of her Choctaw ancestors, she'll discover the keys to a future unlike anything she could have imagined.

REVIEW: This final book in the Tending Roses series, completes the story of Dell's life as she tries for find her biological father. Saying good-bye to the characters in this story was difficult as Lisa Wingate made them each so real and so full of life whether it be trials or triumphs. I could see an entire next series spun off of the next step in Dell's life and where it would lead her. So many of her characters learned the true meaning of love especially love and acceptance of oneself as well as the fact that each of us from the moment we are created by God Almighty has a reason and purpose for our existence. I particularly like the Native American aspect of this story. It was obvious Miss Wingate had done her research into the Choctaw heritage, and I enjoyed learning more about their past and present. It was also nice to see the genealogical thread as so many people dig through both old records and the blessing of the internet to learn more of their past so as to understand their present. A wonderful series that I was sad to finish.

FAVORITE QUOTES: "Their lesson is one we must remember. The darkest hours of history have always been born of the efforts of one people to dehumanize another."

"A woman must always know she can stand on her own two feet, if need be."

"It's not always the best thing to be just like everyone else.....If God wanted us all to be the same, He would have made us that way."

"Part of growing up is learning that people can't give what they don't have. The rest you have to find in yourself."