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As recounted in Appalachian Justice, Jessie is an adult survivor of horrendous childhood abuse.  At the age of thirteen, she was rescued by reclusive mountain woman Billy May Platte.

On the anniversary of her husband’s death, forty-nine-year-old Emily Holt runs away, leaving an unmade bed, an unlocked house, two college-aged sons, and an overabundance of bad memories.Struggling

Beth Sloan has spent the majority of her life trying to escape the memories of a difficult childhood.

On a beautiful fall evening, in the middle of a game of hide-and-seek, five-year-old Bobby Clark is kidnapped by his estranged father, a shiftless man with a history of domestic violence and drug a

Mr. Benedict Grey is the only heir to a long-standing title, and he knows his duty: find a suitable girl, get married, secure the succession beyond himself.

Before queenship and Camelot, Guinevere was a priestess of Avalon.

Mother and daughter: the most precious bond in the world. At six years old, Belinda Brabbage has amassed a wealth of wisdom and secret worries.

This is the tale of what happens when a 14-year-old boy runs away from home in 1916. He leaves in search of his dream--to become a cowboy, and to find his brother who left home the year before.

At the height of the Vietnam War in 1971, Jake Abrams is desperate to leave his oppressive home in Colorado and begin a new life in college in LA, but his dreams are waylaid when he meets Leah, an

Two violent deaths. Separated by time, but with a fatal connection… A man loses his father. A young woman loses her mother.

Vivacious actress Sybil Ingram looks forward to a life of security when she leaves the theater in 1873 to marry a wealthy American.

A tragic loss. A desperate journey. A mother seeks the truth. In December of 1377, four children were burned to death in a suspicious house fire.

Touched With Fire, a novel of the Civil War inspired by the true story of Ellen Craft. Ellen Craft is property; in this case, of her half-sister Debra, to whom she was given as a wedding gift.

Edict of Expulsion: 31st of March 1492.

Some fly to war. Others flee it. No one is safe. When the British army is sent into Spain to help expel Napoleon's invaders, nothing goes as expected.