The deep secrets – that restrict us and limit our lives – are at the heart of this first, engaging novel in the new Smoky Mountain series. Vivian Delaney – in The Foster Girls – arrives in the quiet Wear’s Valley, on the backside of the...

New Yorker Jenna Howell has spent many pleasant hours listening to her older neighbor, Sam Oliver, spin stories about his beloved home place on Orchard Hollow Road in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. This rural world is far removed from Jenn...

A young woman with six foster children, under twelve, hopes for patience, peace, and a bigger house – but love? Not hardly. However, sometimes fate deals an unexpected hand. When Alice Graham came back to look at the sale property at the base...

Delia Eleanor Walker’s life is perfectly planned, the wedding date set, the invitations mailed, and her family gathered at the North Carolina beach house ready to celebrate—when Delia receives Prentice’s unexpected fed-ex announcing...