Blues from down Deep Book

Regina Pearson has never really known any family other than her late, widowed father. He cut ties with his own relatives in North Carolina long ago and moved to Hawaii, then raised Regina alone following her mother's accidental death. Living among the native Hawaiians so different from herself created in Regina a yearning for people to call her own. Then she finds among her late parents' effects a letter written forty years earlier that leads to her mother's sister, Maude, a been-there, done-that blues singer, and her nonagenarian maternal grandfather, head of the extended family in New Bern, North Carolina.

For Regina, going to North Carolina to see Aunt Maude is the chance of a lifetime - an opportunity to bond with the people who share her roots and find the pieces of her she's been lonely for all these years. But the big, warm, loving family she's dreamed about is nowhere in sight. Instead, she finds uncles, aunts, and cousins torn apart by secrets and lies, petty squabbles and heartbreaking wounds stretching back for years—a contentious clan ready to draw Regina front-and-center into their troubles. And just as this new situation threatens to overwhelm her, Regina discovers a passionate connection she hadn't counted on with a man who's ready to show her what real family's all about - and what it takes to keep the love flowing.