Old South

Elizabeth had always believed there was nothing more magical than the precious gift of love...even now in the heart of danger, she still believed it...she always would. After telling the story of Simon's magical cowboy ranch for more years than she cared to count, Elizabeth Fountaine wondered if there might be more to the fanciful fairy-tale than being an elaborate bedtime story to tell children. More than ever before, she very much needed for even just a small piece of the fairy-tale to be real. Kellyn had always loved Elias Stratton with all her heart and probably always would. She'd ...

Do you have a desire to make kings and courts laugh? Would you like to revive a long-dead art? Become a Jester and get in line to make the 4 or 5 kings left in the world laugh. Become a Jester and live your best life.

Kathy must crack the quilt code of the Underground Railroad or die trying! In the wake of a scandal within the New York City Police Department, Kathy Marconi leaves her career as a homicide detective. Wary of the political climate surrounding her departure from the Police Department she places and wins a bid on a dilapidated plantation in rural southern Louisiana. She allows her spirits to lift at the thought of leaving New York and the scandal behind. However, upon her arrival, she immediately discovers that the house has secrets, centuries of them. It doesn't take long to realize that ...

Father Steele Austin moves his little family from Oklahoma to one of the most prestigious congregations in the old South. Some of the more influential members of the congregation immediately find him unworthy to be the rector of Historic First Church (Episcopal). He is determined to open the parish's ministry to those that do not measure up to the unwritten membership standards. Those in power work for his removal. Even the Klu Klux Klan find his ministry a threat to the community norm. Soon the young rector becomes aware of the secrets of sex, power and greed kept by the most pious in the ...

Sharing Home is the fifth book in the ongoing saga of the Return to Summit Falls. Summit Falls is a small town in the middle of nowhere that could be anywhere. It’s small enough that even though you might not know everyone…you know who everyone is. And they know you. Years ago four young men left their hometown of Summit Falls. Each of them ready to take on whatever the world had to throw at them. Now, years later, two of them, Jonah Sutherland, and Adam Dane have returned to Summit Falls to make it their home. Another has it very much in mind. Nicolas Franklin has finally decided ...

What if you left a job and the next thing the FBI is after you? Retirement takes a dramatic turn for a successful bank employee when she's wrongfully accused of bank fraud just as she's starting a new life in Mississippi. Inheriting a substantial sum from her late father, she sets out to fulfill her lifelong dream of opening a hunting business. But when the past catches up with her, she meets a determined real estate agent who not only helps her find the perfect property, but also falls in love and sets out to clear her name. “Mississippi Calling" is a thrilling tale of love, redemption, ...

Love and war don't go together, or do they? Jessica is sure she has found the love of her life. Then, just before they are to marry, the civil war comes. Daniel can't ignore the call to serve. Follow Jess and Daniel as they navigate all the trials of wartime romance in this once in a lifetime love story, set in the deep south.

Narrated by a long-time servant of Crimson Hall, the story revolves around the Barrett family of North Carolina. Thaddeus Barrett is a compassionate father of three who grows hemp and spends time in his laboratory with dreams of inventing medicinal uses for it. His pretty, nearly seventeen-year-old daughter, Felicity (the offspring of his first wife) is more than a tad self-centered, which is no excuse for her younger twin sisters, Grace and Amelia, aggravating her as they too frequently do. Amelia lost her hearing as a result of the same fever that claimed the life of her mother, (the ...

If you're a fan of the Addison Holmes Mystery Series, you're going to love The Scarlet Chronicles! General Patton has nothing on Scarlet Holmes. She's beautiful, savvy, and smart, and if anyone can take down the Nazi's single-handedly, it's her.

Zayn Hamilton, the hottest new Hollywood actor to grace the big screen is every teenage girl’s fantasy. That’s just one of the things Los Angeles Movie Magazine has said about my best friend Jenna’s older brother and the man I’ve had a crush on since I was eight years old. So you’d think I’d be excited that Zayn was coming home to attend Jenna’s wedding, but I’m not. In fact, I plan on staying as far away from him as I can. So why won’t he stay away from me? If I can get through the week until he flies back to Los Angeles, I might just survive with my heart intact. As long...

From the onset of the war, Basil L. Gildersleeve, native of Charleston, South Carolina, a scholar, and professor of Greek at the University of Virginia left his students every Spring to return to the army until he was wounded during a skirmish in the Shenadoah Valley in 1864. Thirty years later he authored The Creed of the Old South, and A Southerner in the Peloponnesian War included in this audiobook.

The factory jokester is about to get serious – with the older woman who happens to be his new boss! Jim I’ve been working on the production line in this small town factory since I graduated from high school. My coworkers still think of me as the smart-mouthed kid in their group, but now that I’ve turned thirty-five, I’m ready to settle down. when I get the opportunity to branch out and drive the forklift on another team, I see it as a chance for a fresh start. I’ve got a new look, a newly remodeled house, and now, a new boss – at least temporarily. I’ve also got a big problem,...

They had very little in common. Their lives couldn’t be more different. The paths they’d chosen veered in completely opposite direction of the other in more ways than could be counted. Yet each knew the ultimate and painful cost of loving. They both knew that would never change. But they share more than an undeniable common bond…one that brings them together to form an even stronger friendship when nothing else could. And it is that bond that brings them together in the effort to do all that they can for a young girl who like them struggles to find her way in the midst of overwhelming...

In 1823, Tennessee historian John Haywood encapsulated a foundational sentiment among the white citizenry of Tennessee when he wrote of a "long continued course of aggression and sufferings" between whites and Native Americans. According to F. Evan Nooe, "aggression" and "sufferings" are broad categories that can be used to represent the framework of factors contributing to the coalescence of the white South.

Grab Cajun Bride, "Eugenia Riley's most colorful, touching romance to date!" (Romantic Times Magazine) for an Everyday Low Price!! From the #1 Kindle Bestselling Author in American, Victorian, and Time Travel Romance! RESCUED BY A ROGUE . . . Orphaned at seventeen, Cajun beauty Angelique Fremont is left to the tender mercies of her profligate Uncle Giles in antebellum New Orleans. Then Giles cruelly betrays his niece, offering her on the auction block to his depraved poker companions! Only the intervention of Jean Pierre Delacroix, notorious rogue turned Cupid, saves innocent Angelique from...

The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip. Shivering and sweating by turns as the temperature and altitude rise and plummet, he describes the people he encountered - the tedious Mr Thornberry in Limón and reading to the legendary blind writer, Jorge Luis Borges, in Buenos Aires.

She wants to save history. He wants to raze it all. A local tour guide who makes a living off Savannah history goes to battle against an award-winning developer who wants to raze the old city block she lives on. Tamsyn’s Troubles… Tamsyn Pendegrast’s troubles can be summed up in one word: Ryan. Okay, three words: Ryan Ruttledge V. A nightmare to her historical preservation efforts, an enemy of her fledgling Tamsyn Tours travel agency and tour company, Ryan seems to have it all: funding, support, awards, and the deeds to half the properties on Rosa Pendegrast Lane in old-town Savannah....

A sudden disappearance, an island escape, the boy from her past, a raging blizzard of secrets and fear, another woman’s betrayal & the quiet suffering of a broken heart. She’d known the boy he was and it had never been a secret that she loved him with all her heart...then walked away...her dreams and hopes lost. Years later her life depends on the man he’s become. Dark secrets and twisted truths...hidden clues and unexpected danger...a lost island of dreams and mystery... There was only time to grab her purse and the small keepsake box she couldn’t leave behind. She had no choice ...

John Snyder's memoir of growing up the the Depression era south evokes a time gone by. It is written with affection and non-judgmental understanding of people dealing with hard times, sometimes with cruelty, sometimes with violence, including an unsolved case of arson that changed the author's life. In three parts, it is about early childhood among North Carolina mountaineers, living for a time with two eccentric aunts, and growing up on a sharecropper farm before the author went away to the University of Chicago.

A novel of terror, depravity, hatred, romance, and selfless love