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                                            Chapter Two       -Church registers of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths, school records, military records, land grant maps, cemetery records and headstones, organizational memberships, tax and census record...

Author’s Notes Chapter One Genealogy: the piecing together the puzzle of ancestors. Or completely reinventing them, if necessary.     .      Kate Thornton felt her face turn as red as the wallet that wasn’t in her tote bag. Digging through the contents, she dumped her address book, two lipsticks, and a hair-brush on the counter, displacing the fried pork rinds and Copenhagen snuff.  Her cell-phone chirped as she added it to the pile. &ldqu...

Chapter Six My eyes blinked as they grew accustomed to the diminished light. The body didn’t move; the chest didn’t rise and fall with slow shallow breaths; no pulse throbbed in the artery at the base of the neck. I sidled closer and reached out to shake her shoulder. “Lady, lady, are you all right?” Remembered from a CPR class taken years before. The woman looked familiar, maybe a much older version of Kay Hollowell, with the same cheekbones, but more wrinkles, more sagging skin on her face ...

Synopsis: Shadows in the Moss: A Liberty Oak Mystery Brittan Lee Hayworth has been waiting forty years to hear from her best friend, Beth Ann Hamilton. Missing since 1963, Beth Ann Hamilton was presumed dead in the same tragic accident that killed Brittan Lee’s father and the young black civil activist, Ebon Johnson. Johnson had been accused of kidnapping the two girls and Brittan Lee’s father died trying to save them. The town mourned the loss of the mayor and Beth Ann; and blamed Brittan Le...

For almost forty years, pianist Brittan Lee Hayworth lived in a self-imposed exile from her childhood hometown. When her long-lost best friend resurfaces, literally and figuratively- in the rusted hulk of a 1958 Chevy Bel-Air dredged from the bottom of Liberty River, Brittan Lee must return to Georgia to say good-bye to her friend and put to rest the demons of her childhood. In Shadows in the Moss: A Liberty Oak Mystery, the characters drive the story , set on the Georgia coast. It will appe...