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The small town themes in The Heartbeat of Quiet Streets stories can mean love, happiness, impatience, fear, or end of life, and a quiet street can imply peace or danger, depending on perspective. The Heartbeat means preparing for a Christmas party, a missing car, a car crash, death of a good friend, misconceptions by a 5-year-old, a sad pregnant widow, trouble with a red Cadillac, a sad lonely salesman, the end of a long relationship, the inner workings of a restaurant, the weak-kneed feeling of being pulled over on the road, the devil trying to take over a small town...in some way it blankets all our stories. This collection of compelling short stories, poetry, and dystopian fiction from South Carolina's published award winning, and up-and-coming new authors.
Beautifully written action adventure inspired by true events that changed America. A young woman dreams of finding her birth family but first must win over a narcissistic impoverished step father and take on land grabbers who drained swampland to create highly fertile crop land, now affordable only by corporations and rich speculators. But when levees fail, more than a million homes are buried in an epic catastrophe as science, politics, race, honor, and high society clash. Sensitive, intelligent, sometimes tempestuous Adele Dawson finds courage from half-sisters, whom she once loathed when her mother died in childbirth. Cramped inside a small tenant farmer's home, the girls team up against her stepfather who is all too eager to hide his dark history. Adele finds friendship, love and courage from a young city man, a relationship forbidden by all parents for crossing social lines. When August introduces his new girlfriend, a political exploiter, the sisters form a strong bond and form a secret club to right their father's wrongs. In the dead of night, Adele learns her stepfather has a contract to sell her toddler brother, Isaac in exchange for lost land.Adele is determined to live up to her mother’s last whispered words to her, “You have your father’s heart. Please find his family.” An unforgettable woman, Adele must choose whether to protect her sisters from her stepfather’s selfish and deadly aspirations or accept her birth family in West Virginia. While in West Virginia, she discovers her stepfather’s dark history and the real story behind her father’s death. A sweeping, fast paced story set in a devastating backdrop of American 1930s history shows the uncommon strength of courageous girls who forge unthinkable changes in their small town. Discover yourself in Adele’s dream to overcome oppression and find redemption in family, love and forgiveness in this absorbing historical teen book, appreciated by adults.
Mallory Granger doesn't understand why her family can't just see things from her perspective. Overprotective of her teenage daughter, Brianna, and resentful of what she sees as her husband's interference, she drives a wedge between all of them. Rachel, Mallory's mother, knows her daughter is headed for disaster but is helpless to stop it even though she already navigated her own do-over. Can she convince Mallory to wake up before it's too late? Or is it already too late?
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Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way…with fists and beer. Usually in that order.
Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi’s car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. The niece Naomi didn’t know she had. Now she’s stuck in town with no car, no job, no plan, and no home with an 11-year-old going on thirty to take care of.
Adele Dawson, the unforgettable young heroine in Redemption, begins her new life as the heiress to the West Virginia family’s coal mine. But her loathsome stepfather, August Beck, seeks to destroy the community’s confidence in her, forcing the mine to miss Great Britain’s critical deadlines as World War II heats up. Adele finds her own allies from her missing grandfather and half-sisters who have a few plans of their own.