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A realistic story of first love, told by an idealistic young man. Winner of the 2019 Kentucky Indie Author Project for adult fiction.

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When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this ... narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confe...

In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery ... enlisted an African American man named George Pearls to rob their reclusive neighbor, Jennie Merrill, at her estate. During the attempted robbery, Merrill was shot and killed. The crime drew national coverage ...

…do anything rather than marry without affection."-Pride and PrejudiceDuring the upheaval of the Great Depression, Elizabeth Bennet's life is torn asunder. Her family's relocation from the bustle of the big city to a quiet family farm has changed her future, and now, she must build a new life in rural Meryton, Kentucky.William Darcy suffered family turmoil of his own, but he has settled into a peaceful life at Pemberley, the largest farm in th...

There could have never been two hearts so open… Now they were as strangers"-PersuasionMountain Laurel Elliot is like her name-she blooms best in the cool comfort of shade, hidden in the Kentucky foothills of Appalachia. Alone on her mountain, she lives a private existence with only her pottery-and her regrets-for company.James Marshall had a secret dream and Laurel was part of it, but dreams sometimes lead to unexpected places. James's heart b...

...if I endeavor to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me? -Pride & Prejudice, Chapter 40Elizabeth Bennet, a rookie counterintelligence officer, lands an intriguing first assignment-investigating the CIA's legendary William Darcy, who is suspected of being a double agent.Darcy's charmed existence seems at an end as he fights for his career and struggles against his love for the young woman he doesn't know is watch...

Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South - all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen Cox's history of the UDC shows why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure.

Georgiana Darcy has left girlhood far behind her. A young, single mother with two small daughters, she escaped a precarious existence. Now she has returned to her ancestral home, ready to rebuild her life. Her brother, William, welcomed her with open arms and helped her back on her feet. But home is more than a place-it's a state of mind, and Georgiana has a journey of the heart ahead of her. As her brother falls in love with Elizabeth, the ne...

I forget that you're a fella sometimes."Gee, thanks."I never forgot that she was a girl. Not for one second…1959. The long, hot Southern summer bakes the sleepy town of Orchard Hill. Billy Ray Davenport, an aspiring physician and only son of an indomitable traveling minister, is a young man with a plan that starts with working in a small-town doctor's office before he begins medical school in the fall. Handsome, principled, and keenly observan...

(For readers of romantic comedy, coming of age, historical romance, Southern fiction) "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich…" Thus began Jane Austen's classic, a light and lively tale set in an English village two hundred years ago. Yet every era has its share of Emmas: young women trying to find themselves in their own corners of the world. I Could Write a Book is the story of a self-proclaimed modern woman: Emma Katherine Woodhouse, a 1...

Much of American popular culture depicts the 1930s South either as home to a population that was intellectually, morally, and physically stunted, or as a romantic, sentimentalized haven untouched by the nation's financial troubles. Though these images stand as polar opposites, each casts the South as an exceptional region that stood separate from American norms. Reassessing the 1930s South brings together historians, art critics, and literary ...

With masterful storytelling...Cox uses the 1932 'Goat Castle' murder in Natchez, Mississippi, to reveal the myths, meanings, and mysteries behind Americans' fascination with the Old South. At the heart of this tale is the human wreckage wrought by Jim Crow injustice."--Danielle McGuire, author of "At the Dark End of the Street."over.

With masterful storytelling...Cox uses the 1932 'Goat Castle' murder in Natchez, Mississippi, to reveal the myths, meanings, and mysteries behind Americans' fascination with the Old South. At the heart of this tale is the human wreckage wrought by Jim Crow injustice."--Danielle McGuire, author of "At the Dark End of the Street."over.

In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. In telling this strange, fascinating story, Karen Cox highlights the larger ideas that made the tale so irresistible to the popular press and provides a unique lens through which to view the transformation of the US South.