"Grayson Blake always has a purpose--and never a moment to lose. He's come home to Honey Ridge to convert a historic gristmill into a restaurant, but his plans crumble like Tennessee clay when the excavation of a skeleton unearths a Civil War mystery and leads him back to a beautiful and familiar stranger. Once a ballet dancer, now co-owner of the Peach Orchard Inn, Valery Carter harbors pain as deep as the secrets buried beneath the mill. But spending...

"When a woman is found dead with the same number of stab wounds that veterinarian Leah Carson's ex-husband gave her, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent Alex Morgan suspects that Leah's ex is still alive and targeting her." --

"A pregnant teenager and her black sheep uncle search for her missing boyfriend and father of her child through the criminal underworld of the Arkansas/Tennessee border."--

Pregnant widow Nora Parker and Dr. Eli St. John consider their shared past and present as Christmas approaches in Stonerock, Tennessee.

Humanitarian aid worker Gia Andrews chases disasters around the globe for a living. It's the perfect lifestyle to keep her far away from her own personal ground zero. Sixteen years ago, Gia's father was imprisoned for brutally killing her stepmother. Now he's come home to die of cancer, and she's responsible for his care--and coming to terms with his guilt.

A now-single mother and her first true love are reunited in their Tennessee hometown seventeen years after their break-up. When Zach got on that bus, he took Presley's heart with him. That was seventeen years ago. She moved on: marriage, kids, white picket fence. But her husband's suicide left her alone, penniless, and with two boys. Presley had no choice but to return to Tennessee. Second chances do exist, but she doesn't know if they can repair...

In Tennessee the octogenarian sleuth, Harriett Bushrow, investigates the death of a noted horticulturist. The lady was bludgeoned in her backyard during a spate of robberies for jewels and silver.

For five years, no trace has been found of two high-school friends who went hiking in the woods near Nashville. The third teen, Amber Ryder, was discovered at the bottom of a ravine with a broken arm, head trauma--and zero memory of the horror that put her there. What started as a cold case has become a fresh hell for forensic technician Georgia Morgan. Another woman's body is found in the woods, and it leads to the missing teens' remains. But while...

A century after a woman was hanged for killing her husband, a Tennessee sheriff reopens her case. Spencer Arrowood always thought she was innocent, but now that he has been summoned to witness an execution he needs to know.

"The protagonist of this novel is an educated mulatto male who tries to survive in a small Southern town in the early twentieth century. In a biography of Stribling, William E. Smith states: "Many years after its publication, Stribling identified his work as 'the first realistic novel of Negroes written in this country since Opie Read produced My Young Master.'" In 1924, the famous black director Oscar Micheaux adapted Birthright into a silent film."--...