Susan's Publications

In a town where everyone knows your business and the Dairy Queen is the only escape, preacher's daughter Catherine Grace Cline dreams of running far from Ringgold, Georgia. But when tragedy forces her back, she must confront the complicated truths about family, faith, and the place she tried to leave behind.

In the hollers of 1970s Tennessee, unwed teen mother Emmalee Bullard is used to being judged—but when the one woman who believed in her dies suddenly, she sets out to sew her a funeral dress as an act of love and rebellion. Facing poverty, shame, and small town scrutiny, Emmalee fights to claim her own strength in a world built to keep women small.

In 1960s Nashville, Bezellia Grove is a privileged Southern girl expected to uphold her family’s high society name—but behind the façade, her mother’s alcoholism and her father’s absence leave her adrift. When she falls in love with Samuel, the son of the family’s Black handyman, Bezellia must confront the harsh realities of race, class, and the cost of defying tradition in a divided South.

When twelve-year-old Leonard buries his severed leg in a church cemetery, it sets off a chain of events no one—not even his fire-and-brimstone mama—could have seen coming. In a town full of sinners, saints, and surprises, Leonard might just be the spark that shakes up salvation.​

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