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Diane Marie Brown

Biography

Diane Marie Brown

Diane Marie Brown is a professor at Orange Coast College and a public health professional for the Long Beach Health Department. She has a BA and MPH from UCLA and a degree in fiction from USC’s Master of Professional Writing Program. She grew up in Stockton and now lives in Long Beach, California, with her husband, their four daughters and their dog, Brownie. BLACK CANDLE WOMEN is her debut novel.

Diane Marie Brown

Books by Diane Marie Brown

Black Candle Women
by Diane Marie Brown - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Generations of Montrose women --- Augusta, Victoria, Willow --- have always lived together in their quaint California bungalow. They keep to themselves, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when young Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the family has withheld a crucial secret from Nickie all these years: any person a Montrose woman falls in love with will die. Their surprise guest forces each woman to reckon with her own past choices and mistakes. And as new truths about the curse emerge, they're set on a collision course dating back to 1950s New Orleans’s French Quarter --- where a hidden story in a mysterious book may just hold the answers they seek in life and in love.