""I am losing my mind!" Amanda Farris whispered. But not even insanity could explain how she had dreamed, or imagined, three children playing in the creek whose names she later discovered on a gravestone in a nearby country churchyard. Stranger sti"...
Jayboy Calvin watched the fog rising from the luminous green surface of the river. It swirled and thickened, reaching greedy fingers toward the bank where he stood. And within the fog was the blackness. He knew it was out there. Waiting. as it had wa...
Fiction readers will love these quick-read Christmas novellas by accomplished author Wanda Luttrell -- especially at the $4.97 price point! In "No Holly, No Ivy," the widowed Loraine, living far from family, decides to leave Christmas to everyone els...
One of ten children of the head cook at Riceland Plantation, eleven-year-old Hannah is sold as a slave to a kind Georgia family to help care for their expected baby. But when the mother and child die in childbirth, Hannah is sold again, this time to ...
This beautiful novel of friendship between a boy and an old man takes place during World War I--when the death of thousands in Europe takes a backseat to a lone murder in the rural quiet of Drennan's Crossing on the banks of the Kentucky River. The n...
Eleven-year-old Sarah is upset when her family leaves their home in Virginia to start a new life in Kentucky at the same time her beloved older brother goes off to fight with the American rebels against the British....
Sarah mounted Gracie and rode along the creek bank behind Uncle Ethan until the waters grew shallow enough to travel up the creek bed. Her heart quickened as she recognized the bend ahead. She urged Gracie up the bank, her thoughts going back to that...
Back in Williamsburg to continue her education, Sarah Moore discovers there is much more to learn in Virginia’s capital city than reading, writing, arithmetic, and the social graces taught by their mousy new tutor. For instance, why are there ligh...
Sarah took her cloak from its wooden peg at the back of the schoolroom and threw it around her. She knew the sound she had heard was not the wind and it was not her imagination. The children had heard it, too. Someone was out there calling for hel...
THE BEAUTIFUL LADY IN GRAY When the Marsh family moved into the old Garland mansion, Jan Marsh laughed at rumors that the big house’s other owners had been killed or driven insane by the ghost of a woman suicide. Then she heard cries and low moa...
Often life is portrayed as a road that leads from the innocent Spring of childhood through the lush Summer of youth and the mellowing of the middle Autumn years into its inevitable ending in the bleakness of Winter. This collection of twenty fictiona...
Great Aunt Emmaline died with a secret. Now someone must pay the devil his due. When young widow Emma Richards claims her inheritance, the stately old Granville House at the bend of the Kentucky River appears innocent enough. But she soon discovers w...
Lydia Steinberg knew her husband, Yaacov, was dead. She had held shiva for him almost two years ago. So why was his voice speaking to her now from the silence of their empty shop? She had spent every Christmas season for the past fifty years here on ...
Amid the controversy ignited by the new national education program known as Common Core, a small Southern school district finds itself embroiled in a modern replay of the Scopes Trial that sweeps six innocent people and a hired assassin into a morass...
Sarah was uncomfortable with the idea of eavesdropping on Aunt Charity’s and Uncle Ethan’s private conversation, but she was anxious to hear what her uncle had to say about their tutor, Gabrielle Gordon. “…spends most of her evenings in Chri...