Tom Bridger, who is half Melungeon, left his small mountain community to escape the lingering prejudice against the mixed race group. Now, in the face of family tragedy, he has returned and taken on his father's job as a county sheriff's deputy. The bones of a Melungeon woman have surfaced and all evidence points to murder. The victim's poor family and the wealthy white family she married into scramble to protect their secrets from Tom's probing....

In the little town of Tarpley, North Carolina, Cora Barker "is an energetic, well-educated woman who is devoted to seeing each member of her family excel in their own particular ways."--Jacket

After funeral director, Barry Clayton is attacked in his embalming room and the body of a Vietnamese soldier is stolen, he works with Boston detective Kevin Malone to find the body. But together they uncover terrible secrets and must solve the code "Raven has come home" before the truth will emerge.

When former Army Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman solves a series of local murders, he and his partner decide to open a detective agency. His first client, an elderly woman, asks him to right the wrong she'd done more than seventy years earlier when she stole a manuscript by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His investigation triggers the murder of the security guard when her lockbox disappears and leads him to question if there is a connection between this...

Living deep within a cove in the Appalachians of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton finally finds the happiness she deserves in Walter, a mysterious stranger who is mute, but their love cannot protect them from a devastating secret.

From the author of Gap Creek-an international best-seller and winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award-comes the gripping story of two brothers struggling against each other and the confines of their mountain world in 1920s Appalachia. The Powell brothers-Muir and Moody-are as different as Cain and Abel. Muir is an innocent, a shy young man with big dreams. Moody, the older and wilder brother-embittered by the death of his father, by years...

Gifted with the ability to talk the death out of the dying, Weatherly, when she's unable to save the mayor's son and the whole town suspects she was out for revenge for her cousin Adaire's murder, must prove her innocence and find Adaire's killer, no matter what it takes.

When Charlotte Honeycutt, owner of Stillwater Ranch, discovered her deceased mother's safety deposit box, she was not expecting life-changing news inside--the long-hidden identity of her biological father and the location of her two half brothers, Gavin and Cooper Robinson. While her father's location is unknown, her brothers have grown up in Riverbend Gap, just as she did. Charlotte is determined to know them, but she is unsure how the revelation...