Valene Ewing

Wife of Gary Ewing (separated)

Daughter of Lilimae Clements

Mother of Lucy, Bobby and Betsy Ewing

Best Selling Novelist

Current Residence: Miami, Florida

Vehicle: Tan Chevrolet Venture Minivan

Information: If Karen Mackenzie is Seaview Circle’s saint and Abby Ewing its sinner, then Val can only be described as its soul. Her sweet nature and kind disposition are cherished by those who know her. Her ability to always look for the good in others leads Val frequently into disappointment, disillusionment and even danger. It’s easy to underestimate this woman from the country who felt like a fish out of water for years in the California suburb that became the home she had always longed for. But, as those closest to her are quick to tell you, Val has a backbone of iron, and it is when the odds are stacked overwhelmingly against her that her strength and stubbornness kick in, pulling herself and those she loves out of difficult situations.

Val feels everything—twice as much as those around her, which is wonderful when things are going well and doubly painful when things are not. When she loves, she loves fully and unwaveringly—as her husband, Gary, can tell you—and when she suffers, her suffering reaches down into the depths of her soul, dragging up defenses and coping mechanisms that surprise even Val herself. She has been called “fragile,” “unstable” and worse by those who know her only casually, but never by those who love her and who are in turn loved by her—they call her The Little Engine That Could.