Ballad novels

Laura Bruce, wife of a minister in Appalachia, experiences dangers after she is asked by the sheriff to help tend the survivors from a scene of carnage at a farm.

Randall Stargill's imminent death stirs up the living and the dead, with a real estate developer poised to snap up the Stargill's Appalachian farm, Randall's four sons trying to deal with each other and the demands left by their dying father, and an old sweetheart hoping to lay a long-held secret to rest.

Folksinger Lark McCourry retraces the history of a family song, which she had heard from her North Carolina relatives as a child, back to eighteenth-century Scotland to young Malcolm MacQuarry.

Journalists descend on a remote town in Virginia in 1934 to cover the trial of Erma, 21, a mountain girl with a teaching degree, accused of killing her father--a drunken tyrant. Carl, 18, a novice journalist from Tennessee, accurately reports the trial while other journalists allow their stories to be manipulated. As a result, Carl is accused of perjury and turns to his cousin Nora Bonesteel, gifted with the 'sight,' to help prove he wrote a truthful...

The American Revolution takes a personal toll on John Seiver when he's forced to divert his attention from fighting Indians in the Carolinas to protect his settlement's farms and families from a British officer who thinks quite highly of himself.