Just what does an oriental girl doing a ballet leap have to do with a story about a NC Irish step dancer? Nothing. This is a great book; it deserves a better cover. I am a sucker for coming of age books about hard life lessons moving a child into adulthood--this book has a twist in which the k...
The award-winning author of Fallen Angels, Nazareth's Song, and Whisper Town delivers the final novel in the acclaimed Millwood Hollow Series of role reversals, strange bedfellows, and ultimate redemption. Jeb Nubey and Fern Coulter are finally setting a wedding date, but their plans are derailed...
Farley Williams drove up on most nights from Tempest’s Bog. He was the man who danced in the evenings from the time the sawmill closed until the bottoms of his feet ached. Every night his spot in front of Snooker’s pool hall was left for him. It seemed he had always been there, like he was born o...
Majesty ebbed and flowed into every nook and cranny of the country, spilling down into the mousiest holes. Even into Nazareth. Saturday, everyone flooded downtown, anxious to share the united good spirits, and that is how Fern happened to pick up the letter from Charlie. Jeb did not know if she h...
The news had circulated about the Church in the Dell outlaw-turned-preacher. Young women waved at Jeb from the library steps. He tipped his hat to them as he walked around another “Bryce for Senate” sign on the library lawn. He tucked his voting stub into his pocket and headed for the jailhouse. ...
EILEEN CADDY “Louisiana? What’s in Louisiana?” Gwennie sounded like she had a cold, but the Manhattan connection was not always clear. “Louisiana as in New Orleans or wherever it is Luke’s gone for the art show,” said Saphora. It was Metairie, but that was nearly New Orleans. Her feet were soakin...