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LeRoy Kinley grew up in a North Carolina mill village during the Great Depression. The hard times led him to make bad choices, and he was sentenced to a chain gang. In the 1930s, chain gangs were free labor to build our country's roads, but a brutal form of punishment often too harsh for petty crimes. He escaped, changed his name, and became a fugitive. After he died, his daughters learned of the secret their father thought he took to his grave. His story unfolded as a portrait of America during a time of great change. Meticulously researched and masterfully woven, the biography of Becoming Royal is a true story of redemption set against the backdrop of poverty in a still-changing South.

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Susan Taylor and Terry Hicks, the co-authors of this memoir, are sisters. Susan lives on the West Coast and Terry is from the Midwest. They lost their father when they were in their teens and later found a secret about him that led to extensive research of the families history and piecing together his incredible story through travel to his hometown in North Carolina, newspaper articles, and oral interviews. Their vivid storytelling preserves the rich history and takes every reader back in time.

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