Henry Carter Hull

Anna Tilner transcended the hatred and violence of her native rural Alabama to become a brilliant attorney with the storied Boston law firm, Tilner and Associates. Now in 1938, she must return to her birthplace, drawn into a horrifying conspiracy directed by one of the nation's most powerful and disturbed men. To uncover and end this machine of vast human suffering, she must rely on the extraordinary gifts of an unlikely partner, Eva Hauser, a twenty-two-year-old...

It was not a place one should visit without an invitation but Harlan Fleming wasn't going to stay long. In fact, it was a surprise he ended up here. It wasn't what he planned. Yet, when he heard there would be no school if a teacher couldn't be found for this year, something about the place called out to him. It wasn't just the fact that his only living relative had ventured into those same hills and never come out, again. Or that there were things...

Seven years ago, a hidden betrayal scattered three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore Estate. Now, when Biltmore Industries master weaver Lorna Blankenship is commissioned to create an original design for Cornelia Vanderbilt's 1924 wedding, she panics knowing she doesn't have the creativity needed. But there's an elusive artisan in the Blue Ridge Mountains who could save her-if only she can find her. To track the mysterious weaver down,...

The Blood of Heaven is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher's son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French. The novel moves from the bordellos of Natchez, where Angel meets his love Red Kate to the Mississippi River...

In "Wolf World" by Jo Ann Lordahl, the prologue and chapters one and three depict a complex emotional journey experienced by the protagonist, Christine Forrester, as she grapples with the death of her father. The prologue sets the stage for Christine's introspective exploration, expressing her struggle with the past and her determination to understand and reconcile her experiences. Chapter one delves into Christine's emotional turmoil as she prepares...

If I Remember Him is, an LGBTQ historical novel set in the small town of Croy, Oklahoma, in the 1950s. The action is begins fifteen years earlier when a monstrous tornado all but wipes the town off the map. Lerner Phillip Alquist, the town's wealthiest citizen, vows to build a library as a memorial to his wife, who died in the storm. Two wars and economic depression delay the construction, but by 1952, the structure is ready to be dedicated, its entrance...

Pull back the canvas circus tent flap. Step inside. Cotton candy is a dime. The music begins, the audience hushes in anticipation. The spotlight glimmers on the performers, and the rest of the world melts away as the magic unfolds. Trapeze flyer Tattooed Matilda finishes her signature act one night and seconds later, she's hurtling toward the tanbark floor of the ring. Horribly injured she struggles to make sense of her condition while she grasps...

When half-brothers Luke and Marshall Reid – expert poker players, con-men, thieves and recent prison escapees – arrive at the Monroe farm, they think they've found a place to lay low. But the farm's beautiful and fearless owner Vera has other plans. There's a job she needs to do – see the county's greediest and most evil man in jail – and she figures the brothers would make the perfect accomplices. When a lawless bounty hunter, Colton Black,...

Moments before Edward Duncan dies, the colorful World War II hero leaves a mandate for his grandson Randol-to safeguard the family's proud Southern legacy. Randol, paralyzed and in a wheelchair after a car accident, buries his grandfather, and learns that his father, a Vietnam veteran, is running an illicit empire with Randol's half-brother, Jerod. A wise-cracking music critic, Randol already has his hands full with his pot-smoking Goth son. When...

In 1728, beautiful, resourceful Madeleine Boucher is one of the last group of poor young girls given modest dowries in trunks, or casquettes, by the French government-then shipped off to America, where they are intended as wives for the French settlers in the Louisiana Territory. Despite a series of romantic travails, Madeleine remains fiercely dedicated to finding true passion and securing the promise of her new adopted land, free from the prejudices...