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Nathe and Addie Watson are warned by Amps, a ghost from Nathe’s past, that the Hooper-Watson Feud might still be fermenting. Nathe thinks it’s due to Bad Blood. Bad Blood--the fact that a person is bad because of his or her blood line. Is that possible? The struggle involves Glee Hooper, his wife’s nephew, which hides activity in the mountains that’s illegal. Their daughter, Lottie, has become an object of a bet that is meant to revenge the Watson family. Can Lottie survive her marriage? Is there anyone that can intervene and save her? The Hooper and Watson families struggle with ...

Why Should I Care? I'll Be Dead: The Ultimate Guide to Estate Planning & a Guaranteed Way to Leave a Billion Dollars is a beginner's guide to estate planning. Taylor Willingham and Carla Alston, two estate-planning attorneys, have drafted over 5,000 estate plans. They first tackle the question of why someone should do estate planning. The second part is what you should be concerned about when drafting your documents. Last is how to preserve your estate, with techniques and ideas to protect what you have created.

Finn Elliott, author of mystery, has returned to his hometown of Muscles Shoals, Alabama. Something unexplainable, almost to the point of bizarre, has driven him to take a look at the past. Leaving his current residence of Chattanooga, Tennessee, he returns home to his sister who is his link to the past they shared. If anyone can help Finn unravel the mystery, and help explain the events which continue to hound him, it is Trudy. Is it Supernatural? If so, what awakened the spirits of the past, this realm of mystery which lured him? There was magic in the Muscle Shoals Sound that was ...

It’s 1900 and work is scarce. Enticed by promises of work with good pay, people flock to textile mills in the South. Many leave their beloved mountains for what they hope is a step up from their grinding poverty. It’s guaranteed pay and housing. Being the sighted sister of the Hooper/Watson family, Lottie is grieved by a dream that sorrow will come to her home. Yet, she leaves Cocke County, Tennessee, with Beck Radford, her new husband, and her four children from a previous, abusive marriage, and goes to Clifton, South Carolina. Lottie is a stranger to village life and close neighbors. ...

In an attempt to put her life together after the death of her husband, Molly Todd spends the winter on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. A trip to a local antique store offers her a project to pass the winter. It's a pillowslip filled with fabric with each piece attached to a paper pattern. Having never seen a quilt like this before, and it not completed, her imagination is aroused. She realizes the patterns are cut from personal letters from "Another time and another place". As a writer, she needs to find the story behind this found treasure. This leads her to finding new friends and ...

On October 28, 1862, the Hoopers break into the house of the Watson family and kill three men, injure and resultantly kill one teenage girl, and rape another young woman. Nine-year-old Nathe Watson is a witness to this western North Carolina Mountain massacre, but escapes through a window to get help at the urging of his mother. When he returns, it is to find the heads of the men atop pike poles on display in his front yard. Sent by his mother to live in Tennessee with a cousin, Nathe changes his last name to Milsaps for protection and stays there until he reaches the age of twenty. He ...

Carolina left Knoxville trying to escape the abuse. Her daddy and Aunt Sugar let her hide away in Jackson County, North Carolina in the abandoned home of her grandparents. Using her childhood nickname of Stitch, she finds work with four strong women who make it their goal to “mend” her. She grows to love them like family while trying to keep her head down and avoid the man looking to find her. Designing and sewing and a suit for William Cannon draws Stitch’s heart to feel love once again. But she was not free! With roughened hands and fingers with calluses, the older women sewed ...

Bella, a young lawyer, has been hired by a firm in Wilmington, NC. Not her first choice, she is nevertheless consoled by the fact that her grandmother has left her a rather dilapidated beach house on Beryl Island. Moving onto the island, she is met by an old boyfriend from her childhood, Robert Malone, who had broken her heart at sixteen. Thinking he might have changed, she gives him a second chanceShe is amazed and captivated by a marine biologist, Chess Steadman, that’s assigned to Beryl Island to work with loggerhead turtle nests. Also, there is Florence Hatley, a woman that runs a ...

Tilley's Mill is a nearly-dead town with decaying buildings. The youth are leaving for jobs in the city, and parents are bemoaning the fragmentation of the family. Leck Todd has left New York after a painful breakup. He returns to Tilley's Mill in the mountains of eastern Tennessee to his first love…training horses using Natural Horsemanship. Isabell Dunnfield, breaks down on a trip from Asheville, NC to Chicago. Leck rescues her and brings her into town. Isabelle is stunned by the ghost-like feeling of the town. Isabell returns a few weeks later with a plan to revive businesses. Leck ...

Sugar Watson, the baby daughter of Addie and Nathe Watson, was considered to be the Lost Child. This comes after an incident in her past that moved her from a carefree girl in search of love to become the talk of the town. By the time three of her children have been born, she has been used and abused. Her one desire in life is to be a good mother and do whatever is necessary to take care of her children. It will take her low and cost her much., but will she be a survivor in spite of the odds that threaten to destroy her.