Singer, Ron Weir, knew he fathered an only child four days before the murder of his son’s mother,Jenna Bolton, in New York City.First impressions last, and Ron is convinced his son Tommy is no ordinary teenager – he was eithergoing to become a blessing or a curse.Crippled by the guilt of an absentee father, Ron ignores the apparent worrying signs that no teenager should display, especially to a parent. Knowledge about the existence of a son has come too sudden, ...

In this unique collection, Literary Witches co-creator Katy Horan unearths the true and fictional stories behind twenty traditional murder ballads, exploring the beauty and horror of the art form through stories, lyrics, and original interpretations. The audiobook includes covers of various folk songs by Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, Marissa Nadler, and Lizzie No.Murder Ballads is a guide to the origins and cultura...

Jerome is a slave. He must wake every morning to the knowledge that he is a piece of property belonging to Alfred Campbell, a plantation owner.But things are changing. There are rumblings in the slave community about abolition, and Jerome begins to look forward to the day when he will be a free man. That day cannot come too soon as he has fallen in love with Anita, Alfred's daughter. Their love cannot remain a secret forever and is under increasing pressure from Jerome's relationsh...

Lincoln Barker has earned the title The Picker, for being the fastest picker of cotton in the Deep South, but the time has come for him to work for free no more.Sold to the highest bidder, he must now escape the shackles of slavery. With the help of his "brother" Jason Hudson, son of his master, The Picker sets out on a journey to Ohio, to seek freedom and begin a new life. Unbeknownst to him, his new Master Harold Carter, vows to drag him back to Charleston, South Carolina, by the ...

Reggae Silver knew he was destined to live up to his name and become a great reggae singer, but first he must survive his release from prison. Wrongly accused of robbery and attempted murder, he faces the threat of deportation, poverty, and continuing battle, with the drug dealer who framed him. Yet he never lost sight of his two dreams - to become a great reggae artist and to prove his innocence. Set against the backdrop of the Jamaican sub-culture in New York, Reggae Silver is a thrillin...

Anita Campbell has been telling herself that Jerome Scott is not dead. It's been thirty-two long and miserable years since her slave lover, and his other love, plunged to their deaths from Lover's Leap - a breathtakingly beautiful 1700 ft. cliff off Jamaica's south coast, after their secret and forbidden romance was discovered.Anita has vowed she'd never love another man, slave or free. But even in death, she can't forget Jerome, whose legacy is an illegitimate son Andrew, conceive...

It is 1865, post-slavery Jamaica, and its eastern town of Morant Bay, is on the verge of anarchy. A Baptist deacon leads the struggle to lift former slaves out of poverty, but he has a battle on his hands with dozens of his followers already killed, and an insensitive Governor about to declare martial law.Andrew Campbell, son of a white woman and a former slave, who committed suicide with another slave at the now infamous and legendary beauty spot Lover’s Leap, on the southern coast...

Teddy Larkin and his wife Tyra are on the verge of divorce. The same day the divorce papers are to be served, Tyra springs a huge surprise on Teddy. She wants Teddy to give their marriage another try because she has made a mistake. Teddy is caught between two fires as by this time there's another beautiful woman in his life. Tyra is convinced that if they spend some time in paradise - Jamaica, their marriage will be out of the blue. But both Teddy and Tyra are in for the shock of their liv...

When James Baldwin takes a new position with the B&O Railroad, he and Carolina decide to move their growing family from Baltimore to a small rural town in the Allegheny Mountains. Carolina's stepdaughter, Victoria, becomes enthralled with handsome Kiernan, an Irish railroad worker. But will the upper-class Baldwins even consider him as a suitor for their daughter? And when tensions rise among the workers, can James stop a destructive plan before it's too late?

American humorist and literary master Mark Twain takes on tough issues like slavery, race, and the ugliness that can lurk beneath the surface of rural life in this novel. An interwoven tale of three families whose fates are thrown together in the aftermath of a murder, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson is one of Twain's more serious works, although it is told with the same love of quirky misfits and wonderful observations that enliven books like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures o...

Typewritten records prepared by the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, assembled by the Library of Congress Project, Work Projects Administration (WPA), sponsored by the Library of Congress, and first published in 1941. As explained in the introduction: "The present Library of Congress Project, under the sponsorship of the Library of Congress, is a unit of the Public Activities Program of the Community Service Programs of the Work Projects Administration for the District of Columbia. Acco...

As she retraces her steps back north, Queenie threatens to disturb more than one person's future...In the sequel to Her Father's Sins, Josephine Cox writes a captivating saga in Let Loose the Tigers, in which Queenie returns to Blackburn... and to her past. Perfect for fans of Kitty Neale and Rosie Goodwin.Queenie Bedford fled her native Blackburn and the bitter knowledge that she and Rick Marsden, the man she loved, could...