Courtney Patterson
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"Evie Austin, native of Hatteras Island, North Carolina and baddest girl on the planet, has not lived her life in a straight line. There have been several detours - career snafus, bad romantic choices, a loved but unplanned child - not to mention her ill-advised lifelong obsession with boxer Mike Tyson. Evie is not plucky, but when life's changes smash over her like the rough surf of the local shoreline, she muddles through-until that moment of loss...
2) Treeborne
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"Janie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of Elberta, Alabama, and in time, she has become its keeper. She tells the story of its people: of Hugh, her granddaddy, determined to preserve Elberta's legacy through his art; of his wife Maybelle, who shook the town when she became its first female postmaster, then again when she died a sudden and mysterious death; of her lover Lee Malone, a black orchardist and musician harvesting from a land where...
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This sequel is set in 1920s Appalachia, where Emerald Ashby's story leaves off in The Whispering of the Willows. The younger Ashby sister's story begins, and the love life of older brother Ernest becomes complicated.
Coral determines to visit the family's nemesis, who now sits in prison, to the chagrin of the other siblings whose lives have been forever altered by Charlie's deeds. When Mercy re-enters brother Ernest's life, he has already found a...