After years away, Louisa Coultrie Halloway has returned to EdistoIsland as caretaker for the family home. Now she flounders to find her place.When Liam Whiting, a local professor studying tidal creek preservation, invitesLou to join his research team, she welcomes the opportunity for purpose.
David, her ex-husband, has followed Lou and their children toEdisto. As he finds his footing in this new life, their once strainedrelationship eases into a familiar rhythm—and he hopes for more.
But the past still has a hold on them all, especially in thepresence of Grace Watson, whose son intends to marry Lou and David’s daughter.Somehow, Grace and Lou must let the past of a shared love settle between them.
In this idyllic setting, relationships deepen and shift. And oncemore, Lou finds herself caught between the life she's chosen—and the love thatmight be meant to be.
From Southern writer Lindsey P. Brackett comes the sequel to heraward-winning debut, Still Waters, praised by Patti Callahan Henry as a storythat "grabs the heart and holds it to the very end."
Praise forThe Bridge Between
Lindsey Brackett, once again, brings Edisto to life in her secondnovel The Bridge Between. Her descriptions of the island were so realand stirring, I needed to step out of my office located on Edisto, and go takeit in for myself! Her characters capture interest right away and her ability toproject their emotions and empathy is a rare talent.
Julie Gyselinck, Editor Explore Edisto Magazine
In The Bridge Between, Lindsey Brackett has penned a story that will hityou in the heart, in that sacred place between the sweet and the bitter.Reminding us that forgiveness is the only way to truly heal tangled thens andbroken nows, she weaves a beautiful, sometimes heart-aching, tapestry of twofamilies who stand at the cusp of what was always meant to be. A must-read!
Carrie Schmidt, ReadingIsMySuperPower.org
A delightful story, rich in detail and nuance in both setting and character. TheBridge Between is insightful as to the heart's motivation and celebratesSouthern culture as focused on South Carolina's wind-swept Edisto Island. Thisis a wonderfully entwined story that examines inter-personal relationships, themeaning of family ties, life's choices and far-reaching repercussions.Relatable, engaging, and full of well-drawn personality, The Bridge Between isan absorbing, satisfying read.
Claire Fullerton, author of Mourning Dove
Lindsey Brackett can weave a story that leaves you waiting for the next one. Iloved her debut novel and her sophomore one, The Bridge Between, doesn’tdisappoint. Realistic characters, a great plotline, sigh-worthy romance, plottwists and surprises ... what more can you want?
Ane Mulligan, bestselling author of the Chapel Springs series

The Bridge Between (Low Country Series)

Brackett, Lindsey

Romance

Firefly Southern Fiction

In 1976, memories from a night near the railroad tracks sixteen years earlier haunt Barbara Parker. She wrestles with past demons every night, then wakes to the train's five-thirty whistle. Exhausted and dreading the day, she keeps her hands busy working in Bryson City's textile plant, known as the "blue jean plant," all the while worrying about her teenage daughter, Carole Anne. The whistle of the train, the hum of those machines, and the struggle to survive drives Barbara. When an unexpected layoff creates a financial emergency, the desperate pressure of poverty is overwhelming.Unbeknownst to Barbara, Carole Anne sneaks out at night to walk the tracks so she can work at Hubert's Bar. She's hoarding money with plans to drive her mother's rusty, unused Oldsmobile out of Bryson City, and never return. She only needs one opportunity ... if she can just find it.When Carole Anne goes missing, Barbara finds herself at a crossroad--she must put aside old memories and past hurts to rely on a classmate for help finding her daughter. But this is the same man she blames for the incident years ago. Is she strong enough--or desperate enough--to do anything to keep her daughter safe?In Outbound Train, the Parker women struggle to make frayed ends meet in a town where they never quite do ... at least, not without expert weaving and a bit of brute force.

Outbound Train

Literature & Fiction

Winchester, Renea

United States

Southern Culture ... Old Friendships ... Family TragedyOne phone call from Renny to come home and "see about" the capricious Ava and Celia Wakefield decides to overlook her distressful past in the name of friendship.For three reflective days at Renny's lake house in Heber Springs, Arkansas, the three childhood friends reunite and examine life, love, marriage, and the ties that bind, even though Celia's personal story has yet to be healed. When the past arrives at the lake house door in the form of her old boyfriend, Celia must revisit the life she'd tried to outrun.As her idyllic coming of age alongside her best friend, Little Tea, on her family's ancestral grounds in bucolic Como, Mississippi unfolds, Celia realizes there is no better place to accept her own story than in this circle of friends who have remained beside her throughout the years. Theirs is a friendship that can talk any life sorrow into a comic tragedy, and now that the racial divide in the Deep South has evolved, Celia wonders if friendship can triumph over history.

Little Tea

Fullerton, Claire

Genre Fiction

Review\n"In The Endling, Deborah Maxey grabs you with her first line and takes you on a high octane adventure through mountains and cities. Readers will be flipping pages as fast as possible to see if Maxey's character can find a way to defeat the odds stacked against her by using her Native American background and training. An engrossing read." --Ann H. Gabhart, bestselling author of An Appalachian Summer\n"Dive into a world of enchanting characters from the small Virginia mountain town of Colony Row. You'll fall in love with Emerson Grace as she unravels the last secret her grandfather, Edward Two Eagles, left for her to solve. The mystery twists into powerful suspense that leads Emerson back to herself and gives her the wit and strength to stop the sinister plot to her own murder. Powerful." --Linda Evans Shepherd, bestselling author of The Potluck Club\n"Make room on your bookshelf, because once you’ve read it, you’ll want to keep The Endling by Deborah Maxey. With a compelling plot, an element of suspense, memorable characters, and lush descriptions, she’s written a page-turner that will draw you into her story. I loved this book!" --Michelle Cox, bestselling author of Our Daily Biscuit: Devotions with a Drawl, Just 18 Summers, and the When God Calls the Heart series\n2021 Golden Scroll Award Winner\nFrom the mountains of Virginia comes a spiritually enlightening and captivating tale of survival and trust. 
Native American Emerson Coffee is the last surviving member of her tribe. An endling. After an internship in New York, she has returned to her chosen life of solitude in the stone cabin atop the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where her grandfather trained her to survive by seeking God’s guidance in nature. When US Marshals inform her she’s being hunted by a mob hit man, Emerson declines their offer of witness protection, believing she can best outwit a predator on her own turf. But when three innocent children living in the art colony below become caught in the crosshairs, Emerson must decide if she will risk it all—her mountains, her heritage . . . even her life—to secure their safety. 
Can a lone and unarmed endling stop the most ruthless family of all or will everything her ancestors fought to preserve die with her?

The Endling: A Novel

Maxey, Deborah

Sometimes finding the living is more difficult than searching for the dead. In 1968, twenty-six-year-old Charlotte Graves wrestles with more than just her decision to return to her hometown, Loblolly, Alabama-she is also fleeing a broken heart, colliding headlong into a second one, and about to stumble onto a deadly secret. Now settled back in Loblolly, Charlotte is hired to oversee the Woodville County Historical Society, a job she was born for. But no sooner has she banged the gavel to bring order to the first meeting than she is accused of being incompetent to lead the group by her old nemesis, Boopsie Sweets. Later that night, she finds herself arrested by her old beau, the current deputy sheriff, Roan Steele, for killing Boopsie. After being released on bail, Charlotte uses her skills as a genealogist to leap into the investigation. And when Charlotte goes digging up dirt, she unearths a long-kept family secret. Will it lead to Boopsie's murderer ... or to grave consequences for Charlotte and her family?

Grave Consequences

Williams, Debra DuPree

Time heals all wounds. . . or does it? Asia Butler and her sister, Ivy Butler Morelli, have not spoken in fifteen years. The two endured brutal emotional abuse from their mother, Veronica, and want only to forget the past . . . and each other. But the past comes calling when they each receive a letter from Veronica's attorney promising much needed cash if they will fulfill her dying wish and consent to cleaning out their childhood home. Asia and Ivy reluctantly return to their hometown of Emerson, Florida, only to discover the house is a hoarder's nightmare filled with strange mementos and clues hinting that they were not the only victims of Veronica's sadistic nature. Can this new pain be the path to their healing? Will they be able to choose forgiveness over resentment?

Fresh Scars

Mumma, Donna

A Place and a Story That Will Take Your Breath Away Mama always said our lives were ghost stories--metaphors--to hide the truth behind. And so begins the struggle Isla Weehunt--wife of wealthy chicken farmer, Scott Weehunt--encounters to keep her family buried in the past and her secrets well hidden. But plans, no matter how well thought out, have a way of taking their own paths. Isla receives a call late one Friday night that rocks her perfectly crafted life. Velvet, her estranged sister of seventeen years, has died in what appears to be an arson, leaving behind a teenage son, Randal, and a tangled mess of murder and chaos. Isla never thought she would return to Nantahala, to the sweet, rugged gorge of her childhood. And taking her nephew into her life was certainly never on her agenda. The thought of conversing with her mother, devastated by Alzheimer's, seems out of reach. But there are questions that need answering about Velvet's death and hidden stories that go back generations. Isla's life will change whether she embraces it or not.

Going to the Water

Hite, Ann

Christmas Eve. Two cups of hot cocoa. Two high school friends . . . 
and a promise made, never to be broken. 
While in their junior year of high school, Brady Jameson and Sarah Ashford have a chance encounter on a park bench during the magical, thinly veiled hours of Christmas Eve. From there, a special bond and friendship develop between them. Then, a promise is made: if unmarried after graduating college, they will return to the bench on Christmas Eve and begin their lives together. 
Over the years, Brady keeps his promise. Sarah, however, never shows, even though Brady knows she’s not married. Friends insist Brady “let her go,” but Brady made a promise to Sarah and Sarah owns his heart. And so, each year, he waits at the bench holding two cups of hot cocoa. Will Sarah ever return to the bench? Will she ever know how much Brady has always loved her?

Midnight, Christmas Eve

Clapp, Andy

Bronze Award Winner - 2022 Illumination Christian Book Awards (General Fiction) 
Feathered Quill Book Awards Finalist 2022\nCan an ordinary life leave an extraordinary legacy? 
In 1977, when nineteen-year-old Allison Middleton receives a proposal of marriage from Westley Houser, she eagerly accepts, having no idea the secret Westley carries—a secret that will change Allison’s life forever. But Allison rises to the challenge of raising Westley’s toddling daughter as though she were her own. 
Over the course of their lifetime together, Allison, Westley, and Michelle form the strong bond of family. As Allison struggles with infertility and finding her way during a time of great change for women, others—some she knows and others whom she never meets—brush and weave against the fabric of her life, leaving her with more questions than answers. 
From teen bride to grandmother, Allison’s life chronicles the ups and downs of an ordinary woman’s life to examine the value of what we all leave behind.

Dust

Everson, Eva Marie

Selah Awards Finalist"Pamela King Cable has created an unforgettable heroine in Neeley McPherson, a remarkable young woman of such courage and spunk that she dares to stand against unspeakable abuse and injustice notonly for herself but also for her beloved caretaker, Gideon. Fleeing a horrendous life, Neeley discovers the true meaning of family, forgiveness, and love in a wolf sanctuary, which becomes a central metaphor for the difficult journey we all must undertake to find our way home. Thoroughly enjoyable book!" ~ Cassandra King Conroy (Pat's wife) - Bestselling author of Moonrise, The Same Sweet Girls, and The Sunday Wife“ This inspirational tale thrills with a tight plot, lyrical scene descriptions, and complex characters. Pamela Cable leaves readers aching for more.” ~ Julie Cantrell, New York Times bestselling author. On a November day in 1951 Neeley McPherson turned five ... and accidentally killed her parents. Thrown into the care of her scheming and alcoholic grandfather, she survives by her quick wit, and the watchful eye of an elderly black man, Gideon. In 1959, as equal rights heats up the South, authorities accuse Gideon of stealing a watch and using a Whites Only restroom. Neeley, now thirteen, determines to break him out of jail. When the infamous Catfish Cole, Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon of the Carolinas, discovers their courageous escape, he pursues Neeley and Gideon into the frozen Blue Ridge Mountains to a wolf sanctuary. But will Neeley's actions lead to tragedy again? Or will she finally find the love of family she lost as a child? Set during a volatile time in America, The Sanctum bestows sanctuary and invokes the power of second chances. "I would compare The Sanctum to Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. Set in the deep south during the Civil Rights Era, this book tackles such issues as racial discrimination and abuse." ~ Kimberly A. Liston-McCabe Written for the General Market (G) (I): Contains little or no; sexual dialogue or situations, violence, or strong language. May also contain some content of an inspirational/religious nature.

The Sanctum

Cable, Pamela King

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