Mama, if I had any right to call her that, had died a full week before I made my way into the world. The great flood of 1916 overflowed the banks of Banjo Creek, and amidst all that damage and destruction the muddy flood waters laid me gentle-like on its banks. Just a short spell before Granny stumbled upon me, all wrapped up in that ol' blue and green patchwork quilt that even now I wrap myself in for warmth. Harm, a child born in the flood waters must now struggle between what she knows is right, and what the Almighty has told her to bear witness to. The path she choses will decide generations to come.

Two families spend years destroying each other over a feud they can barely remember the cause of-while the people actually profiting from their war stay carefully out of frame. That's the engine under Pleasant Valley Wars, and it isn't a 19th-century problem. The novel asks what it costs to keep mistaking the person in front of you for your real enemy, what forgiveness even means when there's no one left to hold accountable, and whether revenge is ever about the original wound at all-or just a debt quietly passed down to whoever's standing closest when it comes due. Nora Callahan watches it happen in real time: capable of sensing the danger building long before it arrives, but never quite able to make anyone act on what she already knows. She doesn't get to stand above the wreckage and dispense wisdom. She has to live inside the uncertainty, the same gap between what's right and what's possible that we all occupy when the people we love are making choices we can't stop-and may not even be completely wrong to make.

"My mama always told me to get out of Alabama and never look back..." Returning home for her mother's funeral, Maeve quickly finds herself embroiled in a supernatural mystery that has haunted her family for eons, and the kidnapping of her little cousin.

In a rural North American town, Scott wakes up within his home to find his wife missing. Through the cold and the night, he searches for her. But morning will come. And time makes the only difference until dusk comes again.

When Maryanne Carter's young daughter vanishes from their rural Southern trailer park, the town is quick to blame her. After all, Maryanne has always been the girl people whisper about. But the deeper Maryanne digs, the more she uncovers about her town's forgotten history: a congregation obsessed with purity, a riverbed full of unspoken names, and a ledger of children stolen in the name of salvation. As the past bleeds into the present, Maryanne is pulled into a world where the dead refuse to stay buried. To save her daughter, she must confront the ghosts of a faith twisted beyond recognition, and the secrets that have haunted the small town of Braswell for generations. Content Warnings: References to drugs and alcohol, referenced murder, missing children, cults --- Fully completed, but I'm releasing new chapters every Friday. I'm thinking about publishing this story officially, so please feel free to leave constructive criticism. Chapters Published: 17/20

Sixteen-year-old Gradle Bird has lived her entire life with her Grandpa, Leonard, at a seedy motel and truck stop off Georgia's I-16. But when Leonard moves her to a crumbling old house rumored to be haunted by the ghost of Ms. Annalee Spivey, Gradle is plunged into a lush, magical world much stranger and more dangerous than from the one she came. Here she meets Sonny Joe Stitch, a Siamese fighting fish connoisseur overdosed on testosterone, a crippled, Bible-thumping hobo named Ceif "Tadpole" Walker, and the only true friend she will ever know, a schizophrenic genius, music-man, and professional dumpster-diver, D-5 Delvis Miles. As Gradle falls deeper into Delvis's imaginary and fantastical world, unsettling dangers lurk, and when surfaced Gradle discovers unforeseen depths in herself and the people she loves the most. Gradle Bird is an unusual tale of self-discovery and redemption that explores the infirmities of fatherly love, the complexities of human cruelty, and the consequences of guilt, proving they are possible to overcome no matter how dark and horrible the cause.

"The first time he died, no one noticed. But the second time, the world ended." When a forgotten farmer dies alone in a fading Carolina town, EMT Micah D'Lane thinks it's just another call. But when a stranger arrives claiming to buy the old man's land, memories begin to unravel and something about him feels hauntingly familiar.

Evangeline Harper's world shatters when her husband, Sebastian Thorn, is declared dead in the Civil War. But when he mysteriously returns, alive yet changed, Evangeline is overjoyed-until she realizes something dark and sinister has taken hold of him. As eerie occurrences plague their plantation and Sebastian's true nature unfolds, Evangeline must confront the terrifying possibility that the man she loves may no longer be human. In a twisted tale of love, loss, and the supernatural, Evangeline faces an impossible choice: succumb to the darkness with Sebastian or find a way to escape it-if she can.

When 17 year old Georgia Beauregard's best friend turns up dead in the river by their secret childhood hideaway, her family's long-buried secrets start to surface. On a remote Tennessee farm steeped in tradition, silence, and shadows, Georgia must unravel a web of lies, power, betrayal, and forbidden love. But as the truth creeps closer, so does danger. Someone's hiding the truth. Someone close. What really happened by the oak tree-and how far will Georgia go to find out?

A contemporary southern gothic mystery series about a teenager who discovers a cache of centuries-old letters containing clues to crimes happening in the present day. READERS CHOOSE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT! Parish Mail is written like a TV series–there are over-arching mystery and romantic story arcs that extend between the episodes, while each episode has a smaller case that is presented and solved. Along the way, I will asks you, the reader, to make several small decisions as you read. These choices do not impact the overarching storyline, but certain combinations “unlock” clues to the series’ mystery, which are embedded in the text.