Southern Drama Fiction

The long-awaited Volume 22 of The Bregdan Chronicles is LIVE! America continues the struggle to become a country for everyone… 1874 carries the challenges created by the Financial Crash of 1873. Millions of Americans suffer the consequences of corporate greed and mismanagement. The Gilded Age crumbles. Everyone must come to grips with their destiny during a depression. Tough decisions must be made. Painful actions must be taken. Carrie, Frances, and Felicia find themselves in New York City during a protest that turns horribly violent. The KKK is more determined to destroy Cromwell ...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Grisham meets To Kill a Mockingbird. I couldn't put it down." When defending your family means destroying everything you've built, how far will you go? Commander Jake Morrison has spent twelve years running from Mississippi—and he's built the perfect life to prove it worked. Naval Academy graduate. JAG Corps prosecutor. Promotion to Commander at thirty-one. Clean record. No mistakes. No looking back. Then the phone rings at 0200. His aunt, crying. Danny's been arrested. Murder. He confessed. The victim: Their childhood mentor, the one white man in Harmony Creek County who...

This is a powerful tale of family, a celebration of decency, and the heartbreak of society’s injustices then that rings true today. ★★★★★ Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, where horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden. It's Georgia 1921. Mute since birth, fifteen-year-old Willow Stewart has one task to complete—to leave her Appalachian homestead and find a traveling preacher and her brother, Briar. When a peddler kidnaps her, she escapes only to face an unjust arrest and penal servitude. ...

“Urban Southern Love Story” In this suspenseful urban love story we are introduced to King, a southern born and bred hustler, who is determined to take the drug empire handed to him by his father into the legitimate world of the music industry. Little does he know that when the streets birth you, trying to leave can be deadly. Then enters into his life the beautiful classy Queen that every King needs. Sloan is a beautiful, college educated, hard working neo soul singer. She has always tried to do the right thing, but when something from her past comes back to haunt her, could it destroy...

NEWLY EDITED AS OF 7/8/19!!!! An unstable beautiful woman is accused of murdering her wealthy husband. She claims she didn't do it. She is not to be trusted. Aidan Collins has his very first large case when his client, Marina Vasiliev, a drop-dead gorgeous mental patient, is accused of killing her wealthy husband. Marina insists that she didn't do it, but Aidan can't trust her. He knows Marina well, too well. After all, he met Marina in the mental hospital - he originally obtained her as a client when she was involuntarily committed, and he assisted her with getting out. Diagnosed with ...

I should be a glitter bomb of excitement about my college friends getting married. But all I can think about is running into my uber-successful ex and his new boyfriend at the wedding . . . while I'm flying painfully solo. I need a plus one, stat. Enter Raleigh Marshall. As luck (or misfortune) would have it, a picture of me and South Rock High's too-blessed-to-be-stressed football coach accidentally finds its way on social media, making people believe we're an item. Raleigh is hot, charming, and one of South Rock's most popular teachers. The problem is that he knows it.

A week before your wedding is no time for your ex to ride back into town, stirring up trouble. But that’s exactly the predicament Darla McAdams finds herself in. With practically the entire town of Tishomingo, Oklahoma, in attendance, the last place she wants to be is at her grandparents’ 60th wedding anniversary party with the whole family, her fiancé and her old flame all in the same room.

What do a runaway bride, a free spirit, and a corporate exec have in common? Besides all being down on their luck, Lainie, Jodi, and Becky are Lizzie Cornell's granddaughters. Upon inheriting their grandmother's home and family bait shop, the three cousins return to Catfish, Texas, grieving Lizzie's passing and hoping to find the fresh start they all need.

Frazier James is already lying to his wife. He is unemployed, ashamed, and pretending everything is fine when a letter blows up his life. Nicole Renée Coleman is dead. In her will, she names Frazier as the biological father and guardian of Layla, a fourteen-year-old girl he never knew existed. Layla is grieving and furious. His wife, Clara, is blindsided and enraged that the woman they agreed never to mention has re-entered their marriage in the most devastating way. Then comes the catch. If Layla is going to inherit her family’s property, the Kumbaya and Rest Inn in Beaufort, South ...

A war divided a nation. Love and legacy divided two brothers. In the sultry fields of North Carolina, under the shadow of magnolia trees, Henry and Samuel Beauregard are bound by blood, honor, and a name older than the soil beneath their feet. But when the winds of war sweep across their homeland, what begins as a bond unbreakable by childhood oath becomes a mirror of a nation’s undoing. Henry—idealistic and questioning—seeks truth beyond the boundaries of inheritance. Samuel—proud and unyielding—clings to the traditions that shaped them both. As faith clashes with conscience and ...

Southern Exposure is the story of Riley Blair, a girl raised between a barstool and a Pentecostal pew. Shaped by fire-and-brimstone sermons, a mother with a sharp tongue and a soft heart, and a father whose charm often led him astray, Riley grows up determined not to repeat the mistakes that defined her family. She believes faith, grit, and good intentions will be enough to steer her life in a different direction. But life in a small southern town has a way of blurring lines between destiny and choice. Drawn to broken people and complicated love, Riley’s journey is marked by humor, chaos,...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage” (The Washington Post) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered—and shadowed—by tragedy. Lonely and adrift, he...

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the...

He vanished fifteen years ago. She’s about to find out he didn't just disappear. He was erased. If you crave heart-stopping suspense and a tough heroine who refuses to back down, this is your next addiction: ✅ From Hunted to Hunter: A heroine pushed to her absolute limit. ✅ High-Octane Survival: Action that erupts into a fight for life against man and nature. ✅ Atmospheric Setting: Immersive Louisiana heat, humidity, and hurricane fury. ✅ Deadly Conspiracies: A web of dark money and federal corruption. June Sawyer is drowning. In debt, in grief, and in the suffocating Louisiana ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In a tense, poignant novel of a boy awakening to his small town’s secrets, “John Grisham takes command of this literary category just as forcefully as he did legal thrillers with The Firm” (Entertainment Weekly). “You can’t help thinking of other...

Nita, Sharlene, and Billy Joe, all about to turn 80, are tired of waiting their turn for a funeral dinner. They each have a bucket list and are determined to tick off at least a few of the items before they go. So what’s left but to hit the road? They enlist two drivers—Billy Joe’s great-grandson, Ford, who has just gotten out of the Air Force, and Sharlene’s great niece, Joelle, a schoolteacher who has the summer free.

A story of family, friends, and strangers who are drawn together by forces over which they have no control.The small town of Clare Harbor has always been home for Sara Merryn even though in recent years her visits have been few and far between because of her busy schedule. Now she’s returning for another reason. There is a storm coming and she has to somehow convince her grandparents to leave their home just outside the small southern city of Clare Harbor. That seemingly simple task is made more difficult by her grandmother’s disabling fears. Sara is determined that between the two of ...

Chasing El Dorado: A Daring Quest in 16th-Century South America is a gripping historical exploration narrative set during the tumultuous era of European colonialism in South America. In this riveting tale, follow the exploits of Spanish adventurers driven by the promise of untold riches, leading them through perilous jungles, hostile territories, and intense cultural interactions. Discover the story of Gonzalo Ximenes de Quesada, the determined explorer who, in his quest for the mythical city of gold, El Dorado, navigates through dense forests, combats sickness, and negotiates with native ...

Big-city defense lawyer Dean Lincoln left his picturesque hometown of Beaufort years ago. But now, the lure of small-town life and a family matter have drawn him back. Amidst the sultry heat and the Spanish moss, and beneath the facade of Southern small-town charm, Lincoln begins work again and is immediately thrown into two cases: a rich kid charged with murder and a poor kid accused of arson. Both swear they are innocent. Both feel the system is trying to crush them. And in this corner of the South, guilt is rarely decided in the courtroom…

One tragic moment shatters Kathryn Moore’s world—and the truth could destroy everything she holds dear. After her beloved uncle—her mentor and only confidant—dies in a suspicious car crash, Kathryn is forced to leave behind the strained comfort of her Boston upbringing for the haunting beauty of Charleston to confront her family’s dark legacy. The inheritance of her uncle’s historic home pulls her into a web of family secrets, where every answer leads to more questions and every truth threatens to unravel her already fragile sense of self. As Kathryn digs deeper, she’s ...