Fiction - Southern

She came to settle an estate. She never expected to find her way home.Emma Rowan has spent twenty years mastering the impossible - closing multimillion-dollar deals, solving complex problems, and building a life defined by competence. When a spring storm damages her late grandmother's...

Nearly 500,000 copies sold! A Southern Living Book of the Month SelectionFrom New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin comes the moving story of a heart surgeon who's hiding his own heart, a little girl whose heart won't last much longer, and a shared...

From beloved award-winning New York Times bestselling author Wiley Cash comes a transcendent story based in the contemporary South, a pressure-cooker novel set in motion when human remains are unearthed on a former plantation.Bennett Place was once a thriving North Carolina rice plantation, built...

From the author of The Tobacco Wives comes an intergenerational tale about a Southern finishing school set in 1951 and 1987, inspired by the true story of a decades-old cover-up that binds two women together, thirty years apart."There are times when the greater good...

Inspired by true events and rooted in the author's family history, The Storekeeper's Vigil and Other Tales is a powerful work of Southern historical fiction about grief, resilience, and the strength of community.As war unfolded overseas in the winter of 1944, a small town...

In a changing South, an old aristocrat confronts the clash of tradition and modernity while hunting in Georgia. As he grapples with his past and the new landscape shaped by outsiders, a young boy observes the complexities of identity and humanity.Rendezvous at Dusk delves...

Anna Zisk is a professor of Yiddish literature who, after being accused of an inappropriate relationship with a grad student, flees her settled life in Boston and seeks refuge at her childhood home in Baton Rouge. There, she's forced to confront her long-ago first...

Daniel Laroux grew up in a house where love had rules, silence had weight, and a child learned early how to read the weather in a room before stepping inside.Raised among family secrets, shifting names, and truths no one wanted spoken aloud, Daniel spends...

He left Golden to find his future. He came back to discover his past.Caleb Mercer hasn't set foot in his rural Georgia hometown in fifteen years. A successful journalist with a carefully constructed life in Atlanta, he returns only to settle his late mother's...

Texas Wild IIThe Adventures of Jack Hays and Other Texas RangersThe frontier wasn't won by armies. It was won by a handful of fearless men willing to ride where no one else dared.The Republic of Texas is young, wild, and under constant threat. Comanche...

Archive Case NR-03-C: The Seventh Ward WidowNew Orleans, 1973. During a jazz funeral in the Seventh Ward, the brass band stops mid-note. The mourners freeze. The street hums beneath their feet. Then the music resumes as if nothing happened.But journalist Jack Callahan knows better...

Investigative reporter Jack Callahan hasn't known true silence since the Ash Mill mine collapse. He carries the trauma like a physical weight, masked only by the high-pitched, permanent ringing in his ears.When a routine assignment sends him to the sweltering coast of South Carolina...

Library of America caps its definitive edition of Wendell Berry's complete Port William saga, arranged by the author for the first time in order of the narrative chronology. Includes 8 new and uncollected short stories, including 6 published here for the first time. For...

What Mama Told Me to SayIn Tallow Creek, Louisiana, some things are mended. Some things are altered. And some things are simply held still until someone is brave enough to let them move.Birdie Calhoun has spent her whole life running her late grandmother's alteration...

Some gifts feel like curses.Ever since the world fell apart, Ellen Dire has carried a terrible certainty: the strangers she remembers don't live long. To quiet the grief that follows her like a shadow, she trades the noise of the city for ten silent...

She can authenticate any document in the Lowcountry. The one truth she never examined was her own.At fifty-three, Eleanor Voss is the most trusted forensic handwriting examiner in Charleston - the rare expert both sides of a contested will agree to hire, precisely because...

Danny Wallace got everything he thought he wanted.The song. The record deal. The stage lights. The chance to leave White Oak Hollow behind and become the country music star he always believed he could be.But some dreams come with a cost, and Danny's was...

An Indies Introduce pickThe stories in Daniel J. O'Malley's The Younger are transmissions from another place. A haunting debut from an accomplished new voice.A boy shows up on a couple's porch one day and gently works his way into their life. Two friends find...

Bubba Ray Jenkins is the kind of man who fixes things. Fences, feelings, friendships - if something's broken in Willow Creek, Alabama, Bubba Ray is already on his way over with the right tool and a warm smile. So when he finds his grandfather's...

Some secrets are too heavy for the earth to hold.Dr. Esen De Venter built her life on the rigid foundation of observable science. As a brilliant clinical psychologist, she believes the human mind is a system that can always be mapped, understood, and repaired....

She went to a small town to escape the truth.She didn't expect to find the one thing she couldn't outrun.Piper Adams is barely holding herself together when she checks into a quiet Georgia bed-and-breakfast with a suitcase full of secrets and a marriage already...

Hollis Waller has written four novels. None of them made him rich, famous, or particularly happy. Now he runs a private investigations office in a dying East Texas strip mall, between a vape shop and a church that believes in amplified worship at all...

Some women break in prison. Others learn how to break everyone around them.At Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, Ruthie Gaines is found dead on an infirmary floor. The official story is suicide. Judge Helen Cavanaugh is not convinced.She brings in court-appointed forensic psychologist Vivian...

Some monsters you can kill. Some just won't stay dead.In a post-war bayou where every folklore that ever crossed an ocean has washed ashore and learned to bite, Finnegan Wray hunts monsters for hire. Her philosophy is simple: bullets are truth. Her partner, Shilong,...

When the star runner for a local moonshine ring vanishes from every known route, a haunted sheriff with a family history in the trade must stop the deliveries and expose the leak in his own office before a single ambush destroys the people he...

TEXAS, 1854Justice has a price. Charlie Rea is about to pay it.When Mexican bandits raid his ranch in the dead of night, Charlie Rea loses more than cattle-he loses the lives of two good men and the peace he's built over years of hard...

In the burned-out mining town of Redemption, a gunfighter with nothing left to lose finds one last reason to live.Jed Harker has been running from his past for ten years-ever since the fire that killed his wife and left him with scars no bullet...

THE CLOTH I CARRIEDWalker's Trail Seriesby Gary M. Roberts There are some things a man carries without knowing why.Until the road shows him. Lieutenant Garrison Walker rode into the mountains with a name on his list and orders to bring a man to justice.Colonel...

In the Appalachian South, where twilight lingers and belief runs deep, a young woman enters a world that will remake her from the inside out.When Utopia begins taking music lessons in Chattanooga, she expects discipline-not revelation. But the Gunn family operates by its own...

Cravings possess the citizens of Salem, Virginia. Salacious secrets and unholy connections link ten stories that intersect with an abandoned chapel edging a dark forest, a city-center kugel fountain, and the deceptively serene Crucible Church. Supernatural visions shapeshift within the autumn air. Men on...

"The Tides of Malvern" is a sweeping family saga that chronicles the multi-generational history of the Sheldon family and their ancestral estate, Malvern, located near Charleston, South Carolina. Spanning from the colonial era through the aftermath of the First World War, the narrative captures...

Halloween and ghost stories go hand in hand. These thirteen ghostly and horribly haunting tales are guaranteed to make your spine tingle and provide spooky entertainment. Be prepared to experience thrills and chills with these tales. Be prepared to experience a wide range of...

He almost killed the woman who raised him. The supernatural power inside him had been building toward that moment for eight months. Something stopped him at the last second. He still doesn't know what.Now it's January 1972, and Rabbit is rebuilding himself one morning...

Every Sunday, Lorraine Robinson cooks the same meal in the same kitchen, moving with a precision that leaves no room for mistakes-and no room for questions.Her family knows better than to ask.But when a single moment cracks the routine, long-held secrets begin to rise...

"Scarlet Sister Mary" is a powerful and evocative novel set in the Gullah community of the South Carolina Lowcountry. This Pulitzer Prize-winning work centers on Mary, a young woman living on the Blue Brook Plantation, who experiences a profound transformation after being abandoned by...

What is seen is not always what is known.And what is known is not always spoken.On a quiet Southern street, a young girl watches the world from the edge of a ditch-where beauty and danger grow side by side.Ruby stands at the fence every...

Gulf Coast Paranormal Season Four, Book One is here! In the shadowed heart of the Gulf Coast, some rivers forget the dead. The Pascagoula remembers every name... and it is singing again. For three hundred years the black waters of the Pascagoula have guarded...

The American West was built on railroads, ambition, and men who believed they could own the land beneath other people's feet.In this gripping Western frontier adventure, readers are transported to a time when railroad barons controlled towns, lawmen were often outnumbered, and the fate...

In a quiet East Texas town, a rural doctor starts noticing something he can't explain.Patients improve. Crises pass. People steady in his presence.And somewhere nearby, something breaks.As the pattern draws closer to home, he realizes he can't stop it-only decide where he stands when...

Colgan Toomey is gone... Everyone thought Colgan Toomey's legend had ended in the rubble of his best friend's bar, destroyed by a tornado in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Inside you will learn that his legacy lives on, not solely in the memories of the lives he...

The Watch: A Novel of the Cross Mountain Mine DisasterHigh above the coal camps of East Tennessee, Cross Mountain stands silent over the valley. But in the mines below, danger is never far away.In the early morning hours of December 9, 1911, hundreds of...

XII: The WitnessSavannah was supposed to be healing.Three years after the death of his wife, Elias Vance has tried to rebuild his life-teaching criminal justice, chasing small pieces of truth, and convincing himself that the system still works.But when a brutal act of vigilante...

The family name was a badge of honor. Now, it's a target.By 1994, the Promised Land of North Carolina has soured. Ansel Obsidian has finally found his calling as a pastor, but behind the stained glass of the Charismatic Holy Baptist church lies a...

Mississippi, 1955. A cotton farmer. A movie star. The same face.When Ruby Mathis drives a truckload of cotton bales to a film set in the Mississippi Delta, she's just trying to keep her dying farm alive. But a case of mistaken identity pulls her...

Some houses are haunted by what happened inside them.Others are haunted by what was never said.In When the Petals Fall, the final novel of The Magnolia Haunting Trilogy, Magnolia House stands at the edge of reckoning and release. Its secrets have been uncovered, its...

Donnie Lawrence, owner of Eternal Tranquil Chapel, is an over-the-top cliché. His mother moved into his lower Alabama waterfront home and keeps asking, "When are you getting married?" adding "I want grandchildren before I die," and "The patter of little feet will be like...

Best-selling author Allen Crane has traded central New York for a quiet beach house in Bygone Haven, South Carolina, settling into island life on Natchatee Island with his loyal dog, Frankie. He's hoping for peace-but the island has other plans.When a young woman is...

The Modern-Day Lone Rangers by Vincent L. Newkirk Johnson II is a Texas-sized, soul-deep novel about what it truly means to protect, to lead, and to pass a legacy forward without ever announcing it. Rooted in cowboy grit and guided by faith, this sweeping...

In Sullivan's Hollow, the sun beats down on lush rows of Smith County's most famous crop. Sean Sullivan's family has grown watermelons here for generations. Unlike his younger brother, Jace, who chased dreams beyond rural Mississippi, Sean has remained dedicated to the farm and...

After returning home from Lake Pruitt, retired Fort Pierce detective Cole Ballinger finds a note beside the phone at the Breakwater Grill: Call Guy Harrington. His daughter is missing.In Bitter Pill to Swallow, the eighth book in the Sunrise City Series, Cole investigates the...