Ursula Turner has always liked to write.  But her biggest dream has been to publish a book.  What could be more thrilling than to see your name on the cover of a novel?
There was one small problem, however.  Turner was born and raised in Germany and learned English in School.  When she came to America with her GI husband, at age 19, her English was good enough for conversation, but not for writing.
"I did a lot of reading and practiced my writing skills,” she said, “and, when all three of my children were in school, I attended the community college and took every writing class they offered, including journalism.”
After a painful divorce, Turner had to earn a living and her dreams of writing had to be put on the back burner. 
Almost 20 years later she got her chance.  She was hired as Lifestyle editor for the local paper, based on the work she had done in college so many years ago.  Besides writing a weekly column and feature articles for the paper, she sent stories to various magazines and actually sold some.
But she still had not fulfilled that big dream – to write and publish a book.
At age 65, a few days after her retirement, she accomplished her goal.  After numerous re-writes, and, feeling a little out of her element at her age, she published a romance book.
A Mother’s Sins actually combines romance with just a touch of mystery.  The romance part is the age-old combination of a young woman and a young man falling in love with each other.  The mystery part comes in when Holly is trying to determine if Michael VanDorn is her half-brother.
Holly has come to Seven Oaks to work as a private secretary for Senator Drew VanDorn. She took the job after learning that she was adopted, and all signs pointed to the senator as being her natural father.
Will Holly find the answer she is so desperately looking for?  Will she lose Michael to the beautiful Margaret who suddenly shows up at Seven Oaks? Will she have to sacrifice her happiness?

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Ursula Turner, retired Lifestyle editor of The Coffeyville Journal, has published her second book. After last year’s success of her book “A Mother’s Sins” she decided this book should be a collection of her favorite columns she had written weekly during her nine years with The Journal. Since all of Turner’s columns started with “Hello there...” and ended with “Have a nice day,” she decided to give her book that title.
Turner lives in Coffeyville with her husband Jack and their dogs Buddee and Shadow


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Ursula (Winter) Turner had the misfortune of having been born during the dark hours of war-torn Germany.  With her father gone off to war, her mother, Mutti, as she was called by her daughters, struggled to keep the two children, and herself fed, clothed and, most importantly, alive, as bombs were a constant threat, particularly toward the end of the war.
Sirens tells the compelling, heartfelt story of the Winter family from the point of view of a child who lived through the horrors of a world war.
The author writes about her father, Karl Winter, who was forced to become a soldier when World War II broke out in Germany, and how her mother, Erna, spent the days taking care of Ursula and her older sister Mechthild.  All three had to go to the forest repeatedly for firewood to be used for cooking and heat.  They also went to outlying farms to barter hand-knitted items for food.  Much of their time was spent in the basement to seek shelter from the bombs that were dropping from the sky more and more often.
Finally, the author tells about the years shortly after the war and how life slowly went back to normal, a normal she had never known.
Ursula left Germany at age 19 to live in America.  She and her American husband, Jack, are calling Southeastern Kansas their home.    
      
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