For the small Midwestern town of , , 1968 heralded another year when parents stared in dread at television screens sending images of soldiers mangled in . Ernie and Christa Bates performed their daily toils, but never far from their thoughts was an o...
Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, during the last dark months of the American Civil War. Letha Bartlett is the beleaguered matron of a ward that houses three men whose lives become entwined with hers. Granville Pollard, a Northerner who spur...
The geneses of stories are as infinite as the chambers of the heart. Some come from the light, others from the shadows, and when from the shadows, the teller is exposed--stripped naked and vulnerable before the eyes of the reader. A fair question for...
Hattie Wax is the type of woman that people cross the street to avoid. Loud and unapologetically fierce about her convictions, she makes people uncomfortable. When the esteemed local judge makes frequent use of the gallows, attempting to bring law an...