Fiction - Southern

She asked the questions no one wanted answered. It cost her everything.Patricia "Patty" Wallace is sixty-six, recently retired, and visiting her daughter's family in Charleston when she begins to notice what others have learned to ignore. Uneasy glances over dinner. Whispered warnings drifting through...

A heartwarming tale of community, redemption, and the unexpected heroes who hold us together.David Wells doesn't know a hay bale from a basketball, but he's learning-fast. When his daughter Anna falls in love with a yearling horse, David teams up with the wise (and...

James "Jimbo" Winslow is the football golden boy of a forgotten Tennessee town in the Appalachian Mountains. But growing up in an abusive home leaves a mark, and his mother's twisted love drives him to a violent act that nearly destroys his future.A last-minute...

In Lawton, Tennessee, the truth of growing up rarely fits neatly inside a Christmas newsletter.Tim Duning's Lawton Passage follows Liam, a boy raised in his ancestral country home built in the 1840s, as he adjusts to small-town rituals, and the quiet pressures of Southern...

In Lawton, Tennessee, the truth of growing up rarely fits neatly inside a Christmas newsletter.Tim Duning's Lawton Passage follows Liam, a boy raised in his ancestral country home built in the 1840s, as he adjusts to small-town rituals, and the quiet pressures of Southern...

"...Fascinating eccentric characters, a generous dose of fantasy and magic, and genuine humor make this book an unforgettable -William Bernhardt, New York Times Bestselling AuthorTo Save Her Mother, She'll Have to Walk the Edge of MadnessSarah Bible has spent most of her life cleaning...

Award winning author Jamie Lisa Forbes brings us the story of Rowen Hart, raised as the pampered son and only child of a prominent family in the small community of White Rock, North Carolina. It's the 1950's and he's drifting through the days, following...

Dave Robicheaux, James Lee Burke's iconic detective, returns to investigate the death of an unidentified woman, pulling him into a vortex of corruption and violence in the Louisiana bayouWhen a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux's...

Welcome to Peachtree Bluff: a cozy coastal town where family secrets refuse to be washed away by the tide and close-knit community is everything. As New York Times bestselling author Kristy Woodson Harvey reunites the Murphy crew just in time for pumpkin spice season,...

Two unusual sisters thrown out of the monastery. Why? It's not exactly pleasing to the Mother Superior when two very different nuns refuse to wear their habits and the conventional way of life that nuns usually adhere to. Pink high heels, fishnet stockings, pink...

Classic short stories by a beloved virtuoso of language, craft, and madness from the American South "His writing was anarchic and wonderfully funny. He sounded like what you'd get if you stirred three heaping teaspoons of Thomas Pynchon and Terry Southern into a jar...

Pudd'nhead Wilson is one of Mark Twain's sharpest and most unsettling novels, blending satire, social criticism, and psychological drama to expose the absurdities and moral contradictions of American society in the antebellum South. Set in the fictional Missouri town of Dawson's Landing, the novel...

Former quarterback turned Edgar-winning author Eli Cranor throws a glorious game winner in this series debut starring a rookie FBI agent who finds herself caught in the tangled web of a college football empire--and the bloody greed that fuels it. "Former college quarterback Eli...

Swamp Jesus is a story about a young man coming of age. Dillon is raised in a single parents household in rural Louisiana surrounded by social economic inequality and the dark side of substance abuse. He dreams of breaking free and moves to Nashville,...

The Gospel of SmokeA Southern family. A tobacco empire. A silence that finally speaks.In the heart of the Deep South, in a crumbling estate called Belle Noir, legacy is everything-and the truth is the one thing nobody dares inherit.The Gospel of Smoke is a...

Although we never realize it in the moment, there will always be a time when we say "goodbye," to our friends, family, or loved ones, it might be our last goodbye. Sometimes we might be fortunate enough to have the chance to reconnect. Other...

Seven days to freedom. A lifetime of secrets. And a chain that won't let go.In the blistering 1952 sun, the Asheville highway isn't just a road-it's a furnace. For Bo Kittle, it's the final stretch of a ten-year sentence. He's a "soft" trustee, a...

Five Shorts and a Brief is a collection of five select short stories and a work of flash fiction from the author of the Southern Waters Adventure Series, Nate Littlefield. Within this collection, you will find: "Anniversary Blues": Set in the world of the...

Her mouth twists, "I was a slave there until General Butler came along.""I can't imagine you being a slave to anyone.""I couldn't either." She says dryly.Author: C. R. BlackfeatherISBN-13: 9798341269279Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/04/2024Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14d

What do two struggling scuba diving instructors, an aging troll, an overweight cyclist, two elderly sisters, a restless young boy, and a teenager living out the last day of his life have in common?They're all to be found within the pages of Five Shorts...

La Vendée, - An Historical Romance is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1875. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a...

Marli's lost a lot, but it hasn't kept her from being involved with life. In fact, it's infused her with a sense of spontaneity that surprises even her. There's nothing left of the Mississippi homestead that Dad left to Marli and her sister, Ellie....

Welcome to the small town of Chinkapin, Georgia, where recently-divorced Laurie Lanton is starting her new life in a warmer climate. To keep her mind off her ex, Laurie joins Mary and the other volunteers at the Treasure Chest, a charity thrift shop run...

How Much of Your Future Depends on Your Past?After decades apart, childhood friends Jo Felsenthal and Gina Ingram spend their first summer together after more than forty years. A few weeks spent revisiting life as the girls they used to be and getting to...

About three-fourths of the way through our life's journey, we suddenly stop.We stop to ponder all the "what if's." What if Jo had never joined the military? What if Gina hadn't gotten pregnant? What if their choices hadn't taken them in completely opposite directions,...

Can friendship last a lifetime?Everyone says that hindsight is 20/20. If that's true, how much of that image in the rear view affects who we are today, or who we will become tomorrow?Jo Felsenthal and Gina Ingram were the closest of childhood friends back...

Myrtle Beach Murder In the sun-soaked haven of Myrtle Beach, the serene waves crash against the shore, but a darker tide is rising. Pastor David Mitchell, a compassionate leader of Second Baptist Church, has long understood the depths of human nature. His unwavering faith...

"I forget that you're a fella sometimes.""Gee, thanks."I never forgot that she was a girl. Not for one second...1959. The long, hot Southern summer bakes the sleepy town of Orchard Hill. Billy Ray Davenport, an aspiring physician and only son of an indomitable traveling...

Linda Cruz, the young pharmacist in Morgan Crossroads, Alabama is about to become the youngest member ever accepted into the Rosebud Circle. As their way of being helpful, some of the older members decide it is their duty as friends to assist Linda in...

What exactly are two single women whose age is somewhere north of seventy, doing on a westbound Greyhound?Life in Morgan Crossroads, Alabama is as normal its residents can make it before the tallest man to ever grace the porch of Brown's General Store shows...

May, 1990: For his final six months at Lancaster College in Dublin, Georgia, Royce Murphy moves in with his best friend, David, the most unique person he's ever known. He vows to make the most of the time that remains with his friends, before...

Childhood sweethearts Katelyn and Luke were inseparable, until she left him unexpectedly, as she searched for what she thought she wanted in life. It soon became clear to her that she had made a huge mistake, and her new, dream life in the city...

Seventeen-year-old John Sommerfield has never known anything but the hard work of his family's farm in the timbered hills of Judah County, Kansas. Then his father is gunned down, and John inherits everything the man left behind: his debts, his last word - "Preacher"...

Author: Kyara RiceISBN-13: 9798318839887Publisher: Palmetto PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/2026Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d

Author: J. D. TollisonISBN-13: 9798181863033Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2026Pages: 522Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.30d

Author: K. D. McIntyreISBN-13: 9798349385681Publisher: New Dawn Press(IL)Language: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2026Pages: 698Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.38lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.69d

Author: Cebo CampbellISBN-10: 166822612XISBN-13: 9781668226124Publisher: Simon & SchusterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2027Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.99d

Author: Kathleen Williams RenkISBN-10: 1960373854ISBN-13: 9781960373854Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/2026Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

How much would you sacrifice to save a legacy?Leah Tanner thought her life's path was set. Then Clancy Mountain became a war zone. Armed with a crossbow and deadly aim, Leah doesn't carry the burden of protection alone. Beside her stands her father, Isaac,...

From award-winning author Spencer K.M. Brown, SLOW FIRE is a collection of Southern stories about people living at the edge of belief-religious, familial, and personal-where grace is rare, suffering is ordinary, and endurance becomes a quiet form of love.Set among frozen hollers, decaying motels,...

In the shadow of the sassafras trees, desires entwine like the roots beneath the earth.After West takes his anger out on Trinity for the last time, it's just the beginning of her problems. With no one to vouch for her character in the small...

Passionate Orphan is a raw, daring novel of sex, survival, and a woman who will not be owned-no matter the cost.Cyri is young, beautiful, and devastatingly honest-about her desires, her pleasures, and the violence that shaped her life. Men want to possess her. Women...

Ronald Summerville retreats to rural Mississippi to forget a war that broke him and a woman who betrayed him. Instead, he meets Ferris Macklin-young, stunning, and starved for affection in a house where tenderness is forbidden. Her innocence is mixed with a disarming boldness,...

In the hills of Appalachia, coal dust settles on everything; lungs, dreams, and the hearts of those who dare to leave.Danny Wallace has one foot in the mine and the other in a world he can almost touch: the glow of a stage, the...

In Rhinestone, Alabama, life is full of porch swings, Sunday dinners, and the steadfast friendships of Ruby, Maude, and Opal. But as the world beyond their quiet town roils with unrest, even Magnolia Manor feels the tremors of change.Ruby longs to preserve the peace...

Jack Sheridan's pulp-noir classic, back in print for the first time in over sixty years. "Sheridan seems to be aiming at, and achieving, something higher and more powerful than just an entertaining story." New York World-TelegramThe first man that loved Rita sparked a fire...

Guilt momentarily forgotten, I whipped around to face Tom. "My God, what kind of place have you brought us to? What kind of people would advertise their own racism?"Billy leaned over the seat. "How come they spelled clan with a k? ***From the moment...

What would you risk to reach your dream... or just find the person you used to be? Overwhelmed mother and property researcher Mitch Waterhouse, is assigned a resort project in Savannah, Georgia, far from her base in Atlanta. The distance from her daily grind...

Set in the Eisenhower era, Lynda Lee Rogers, a former beauty pageant queen, seems to have an idyllic life, woven together with her very own loom, but in reality she struggles with debilitating headaches and depression, only finding solace in pain pills which evoke...

Set in the Old South after the Civil War- specifically on a tobacco plantation in Staunton, Virginia- this story revolves around three key groups of people. Plantation owners, plantation workers, and Native Americans play integral roles in this saga. They often intersect and prove...