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Could an entire family for generations have been cursed? Can a house really be haunted? HOUSE OF TRAGEDY by award-winning author and journalist Ken H. Fortenberry tackles and attempts to separate fact from fiction in this engaging and well-researched book about the historic, deadly, and maybe even haunted Seaside Plantation on Edisto Island, South Carolina, where John McConkey was brutally murdered in 1915. McConkey wasn't the first of his family to die at Seaside. It is also where one of his sisters burned to death, another may have committed suicide, and a brother also mysteriously died. ...

This is a fascinating, well-researched short-story collection of two sensational murders that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Catawba County, North Carolina, but made headlines around the world. The stories revolve around love, lust, jealousy and cold-blooded murder. White Beauty, Black Beast is the story of “Aunt Sarah” Eller Wycoff who served most of her life - more than 40 years - in North Carolina’s state penitentiary as an accessory to murder. She refused pardons from five governors that would have set her free and allowed her to go home. Three years before ...

Murder. Mystery. Politics. Romance. Brian Anderson is the quintessential handsome, self-centered jock at Strom Thurmond High School in Spartanburg, SC and finds himself torn between peer pressure and racial strife during the days of Vietnam and integration. When his attorney-father defends a black woman accused of murdering her husband, he struggles to learn who he really is and what he really believes. More trouble comes his way when an innocent a black man is hanged by the Ku Klux Klan and he comes across critical evidence that could land him in big trouble with the Klan, a secret he ...