The year is 2021 - or is it? When Meg Kites buys a house in a rural Virginia community nestled in the Blue Ridge, she inherits a dark mystery about the Hill clan brewing for a hundred years. It begins when she sees a strange apparition on a country road at dawn, a man in top hat and black waistcoat who disappears before her eyes.
SKYFALL is a historical mystery/Appalachian ghost story. The past bleeds into the present, with Meg's growing fascination with the ghost of Caleb Hill, a 19th-century magician who was himself obsessed with the "etheric realm" and his beautiful wife Lucy. With a good deal of humor, the story alternates between Meg's daily duties as Welfare Director that begin to seem surreal and the mysteries of the Hill clan. Did Caleb's wife Lucy return to Ireland, as some believe, or did she end her own life, a secret hidden from her bereaved husband? What happened to Caleb, and why was an empty coffin buried in the town cemetery?
SKYFALL is the story of a love strong enough to endure death and betrayal. In her quest to reunite the spirits of Lucy and Caleb, Meg learns not only to believe in the redemption of love, but finds that she too, can open her heart to a last romance.
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Obituary
by Jamie L. Reeves
"In many ways, this book is a goodbye letter. A goodbye to my older sister. A goodbye to my childhood. A goodbye to an innocence I'll never know again. In other ways, it's an acceptance letter. I'm accepting my grief. I'm accepting adulthood. I'm accepting that love and hope are everywhere: in my family, my past, my present, my future, and myself. I have poured my heart into each poem in this book. I started this collection when I was 18, and at 21 I'm letting it go. I hope readers will find comfort in themselves and their grief through the words I have written.”
Jamie L. Reeves, Author
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Pocahontas Press announces their exciting book release by Author, Kristin Martin…
Lasso the Breath
New Releases and Pocahontas Press Favorites!
Fun Times with Color Rhymes
by
Barbara Bower Middleton
Illustrations by Suzanne Davis Harden
Purchase your copy today in softcover ($12.99) or hardback ($17.99) plus shipping.
Smoke from Small Fires Book Club Edition is here!
Available for purchase through Pocahontas Press online bookstore-order your copy today.
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It’s the 1950s. Picture Blackshale, Tennessee, with its home fires, small town ways and postwar innocence - the perfect place for a girl to grow up. From her earliest days, an artistic spark smolders in Anna Grace Tollett, and when the mountain turns dark and unnerving, creativity is all she has to weather hard times. In Smoke from Small Fires, happily off-tilt characters, bizarre events and a gamut of emotions stack up like a collage layered thick with compelling details.
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Stay tuned for book release events to be announced. Book club discussion groups will also be forming soon.
Check out this cozy mystery, the third story from Bob Herring!
When Sara receives a surprising letter naming her as a recipient in proceeds from her late grandfather’s estate, she finds herself off on an adventure. The unexpected financial windfall, however, is short-lived when someone robs her. The target of the theft...some recently acquired and very valuable paperweights. Who could have done this? When did they have the opportunity? Most importantly, could it be someone close to her who knows her every move?
In Bob Herring’s third cozy mystery, fans will meet both new characters and see some familiar ones, while taking some twists and turns along the way.
About the Author
Bob Herring was raised in Baltimore County, Maryland. He was a high school physical education teacher and coach for 30 years. After retiring from his teaching career, Bob incorporated his love of teaching and coaching as a professional golf instructor for seven years. He currently works part-time in a local antiques center where he specializes in selling sports items and postcards.
Bob and his wife Jean live in a small town outside of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. They have been married for 59 years and have two children and six adult grandchildren. Both Bob and Jean are animal lovers and enjoy their six-year-old tiny Yorkie named Pipsqueak. In his undergraduate studies, Bob completed several literature courses which kindled his passion for reading and writing. Bob has written three novels which integrate people and places from numerous unforgettable memories of his past.
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"Poetry is sometimes our whisper and sometimes our shout when it awakens our common humanity. Are you awake? What are your thoughts; what are your feelings that beckon to be expressed," Russell Gregory said in this collection of his poetic works. Delving into life, love, grief, and the end of earth's experience, Gregory traverses the scope of emotions lying within all human beings and urges readers to reach into their own depths of existence to find what lies beneath the surface.
About the Author
Russell Gregory was raised in Oklahoma and is an Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at Radford University. He earned a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt University. Much of his life has been spent in Southwest Virginia where he feels most at home. He considers himself a storyteller, in line with the tradition of oral presentation, and a writer who creates in several modes. He has written a play, “Toby,” which was performed at his university. He has notebooks of poetry he has written; they will be featured in upcoming volumes. In addition, he is working on his memoir, a collection of stories from his life, and on short stories which are inspired by those personal stories.
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New Release by Author Colleen Bays…
Lily and Her Godparents: A Story of Love and Adoption
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Join Lily as she teaches her new family all about sharing love! Lily and Her Godparents: A Story of Love and Adoption is a practical tool for children and adults to spark discussions about adoption and fostering, whether human or animal. Readers will learn, along with Lily, that our families can sometimes change, but that is okay. What matters is that they are filled with love!
Hardback cover, printed by Ingram Spark
