{"product_id":"the-cotton-brokers-son-9798985164077","title":"The Cotton Broker's Son","description":"\u003cp\u003eSuccess is not a straight path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Henderson family, with its tragedies, challenges and mistakes, is the perfect example.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom dies in a mine explosion. His namesake dies young, but brother Preston survives, planting the seed for a brighter future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreston's grandson, Hugh, rises from life in a cotton mill to become a successful cotton broker, investor and landowner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis son Bill follows in his footsteps. His dream of learning to fly is fulfilled and passed down to his son, Bob.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut sadness is never far away. Hugh's beloved wife dies young. Bill's beautiful, selfish wife gives him children but leaves when he returns from World War II. Young Bob takes a life-altering action, then finds his calling as a doctor. His marriage, too, is ill-fated and leads to a shattering consequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill the Henderson men rise again? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow the threads of their lives in \"The Cotton Broker's Son.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoberts, Hap:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Following a successful career at Food Town Stores, Inc, later Food Lion, Hap Roberts opened his own CPA firm in 1983. A year later, he and his wife, Annette, founded Statewide Title, Inc. and through the years he served on numerous philanthropic boards as well as nineteen years on the corporate board of Ryans Family Steakhouses, Inc.In 2018, he was ready for a completely different challenge, and thus embarked on writing his memoirs.Hap followed \"Everybody Was Happy\" with \"Mimosa,\" a memoir by his uncle, Ralph Roberts, that he shepherded to publication after finding more than a dozen different copies of Ralph's manuscript.\"The Cotton Broker's Son\" is Hap's first novel.Hap and Annette live in Salisbury with their beloved dogs, Elke the German Shepherd and Lilli the Yorkie. Their daughter, Heather Brady, lives just a few doors down from her parents with her husband, Brad, and their children, Bell and Graham.","brand":"Roadhouse Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51690561831186,"sku":"9798985164077","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a871894c-62d1-4b58-b2d0-2d85ce7e4b70.jpg?v=1761739997","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-cotton-brokers-son-9798985164077","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}