Beware the Tall Grass skillfully weaves the story of a modern family with one son’s past life memories as a soldier in Vietnam and the life of another young man caught up in the drama of mid-60s America.
Fiction
After her husband’s death, Lexi has refused to return to the Pinecrest Estate on the Florida Keys, too many hard memories on that strip of land. Memories of meeting her husband on the set of an iconic horror movie. Of being cast as an extra, of watching herself get killed on screen. And of scoffing […]
A woman challenges the constraints of life in Prohibition-era Appalachia in this sweeping and richly rewarding novel about endurance, survival, and redemption. The McKenzie women, empowered with a formidable history rooted in the foothills of Appalachia, have passed down their folk-healing wisdom through generations. Rosalee, the last living headstrong daughter in Granny McKenzie’s line, soaked […]
A Home for Friendless Women follows the Home’s benevolent benefactors and several of the fallen women who live there through their daily religious lessons and hard work while grappling with a terrible secret that has the power to unravel the Home entirely.
1666: A Novel, her second work of historical fiction based on interviewing tribal elders, researching colonial documents, and studying the Patawomeck language, tells the story of her people and their unlikely survival due to the courage of two Patawomeck women.