The protagonist of Lynda Stephenson’s novel "The Southern Chapter of the Big Girl Panties Club" is a sometimes sassy, sometimes sarcastic, and always unpredictable sixteen-year-old girl from Clover, Texas, named Frankilee Baxter. The story opens in 1958 on the first day of freshman orientation at...

“Burnt Mountain” is the story of Thayer Wentworth, who was adored by her father and grandmother, but who never quite lived up to her mother’s expectations. She spent her summers at Camp Sherwood Forest where she felt at home. It was there on Burnt Mountain...

"Okatibbee Creek" is based on the true story of the main character in this story, Mary Ann Rodgers. This story opens in 1834 when young Mary is six years old, and is spending time down at the creek with her brothers and sister while waiting...

In 1967 in Forrest Town, Arkansas, eighteen year old Alison Tillman finds the body of a dead black man, Byron Bingham, floating in the nearby St.Francis River. Alison is ashamed to be white as she is almost certain that white people caused Byron's death. His...

The setting is smalltown Hollyhill, Kentucky, in the summer of 1964 and thirteen year old Jocie Brooke has had one of her prayers answered. The family dog, Stumpy, had been killed years before and Jocie wants another dog as her own. She finds ugly, hungry,...

"Flying Solo" by Jeanette Vaughan begins with a shocking surprise for Nora; she is pregnant. This is not the happy occasion you may expect; her husband is not the father. Nora married Frank Greenwood, the son of a wealthy family and several years older than...

On Groundhog Day of 1975 baby Claire was born prematurely. She was a twenty-sixth week baby. The hospital had never had a preemie this young survive but Claire had an angel watching over her. Millie Rose died in 1922 when her baby Mae Dae was...

"Twoon" describes the thrill of killing others, first a drunk, then a young girl, then a couple making love in a sleeping bag on the beach. The killer loves it when the newspapers begin to refer to him/her as the "Beach Front Stabber". Meanwhile in...

"The Middle of Nowhere" begins back in the early twenties. We meet Lucy Malinda Chapman, also known as Skitchy, the fifteen year old daughter of a rancher family in West Texas. When Skitchy falls in love with Pinkney Campbell, a cotton farmer,who is several years...

Faith Hope has been left with watching over her younger sister, Serenity. Their parents and older, newly-married sister Harmony were killed when they accepted a drunken bet that involved some sheep, a motorcycle and a two dollar bet. The animals survived but Harmony and her...