HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – LJ Henley’s first novel, The Thorn and the Rose, is inspired by true events. It all started with a series of documents, hidden in an antique picture frame prized by Henley.
“I have had that frame my entire life. I always took it with me everywhere I went, because I only have two baby pictures of me,” Henley said.
After sitting untouched for years on the family’s piano, it all of a sudden began to fall over one day in 2020…