Three hundred and a few more years ago the Great North Road leading from London to Edinburgh ran through and by an English village in Nottinghamshire just as it had done three hundred years earlier than that and as it has these three hundred years. The streets of the village ran toward it and into it as brooks flow to a river, it being the main thoroughfare of travel and therefore source of all outside interests for the inhabitants of the village. At the corner as one could say, of one of ...

Adulting is tough, and the struggle is real. Do you think you are ready? Your parents hope you are, but the truth is no one is ever ready! We all screw it up and we all have questions.T hese tips may just help with some of the random questions you have. Questions like:How long do I cook a chicken breast?How do I meet people in real life instead of online?It's my house, why should I clean it regularly? And who really cares if I do?Asking questions is a goo...

Maggie Saunders is an almost sixty-year-old lesbian who's recovering from the loss of her partner. She lives on her family's farm next to a man-made lake. She interacts with natives and newcomers by boarding horses, storing boats, and running errands while she farms. Her closest friends comprise her reading group of a retired schoolteacher with land developer son, a grocery clerk who introduces her to noncommittal dating with disastrous results, a closeted lesbian brainiac retired from the...

Peyton Dawson celebrates the end of tenth grade knowing he's gay. What he doesn't know is that his great-grandmother and great-aunt are the cornerstones of the small Southern town he'll soon be exiled to for the summer.When Peyton's sent to the Greats to 'get over' being gay, he embarks on an adventure of Confederate treasure, a restored Underground Railroad Station, and a MAGA civil rights clash reminiscent of the 1960s.Peyton finds his future in the past and a boyfriend t...

Tracey Stephens thinks she has her life in order. She follows her passion and works as a museum curator in Danville, Virginia. She plays with Ginny Daniels, a television reporter new to the intricacies of a small Southern town. For the most part, Tracey's comfortable with her niche in a community based on ancestors and history. All's well until Tracey's great aunts resurrect a family legend best left unspoken--long missing Confederate treasure--that pits Tracey against Ginny.Three ...

Andy Riggins has just begun sixth grade. He's also just witnessed a seventy-year-old World War II bomber return to battle ready condition. His father is deployed in the Middle East. Who is Andy to confide in? Neither his best friend nor his little sister, or even his mother, understands. His father's plane crashes 8,000 miles away. It takes a warbird and her crew from another time to help Andy bring his father home.

In 1866, Judy Candler was nineteen and had lived in Ohio attending school since the death of her mother in 1857. Her mother's family fled Virginia in 1840 due to the conflict between their Quaker beliefs and slavery. Her mother returned to Virginia to marry and bore five children before her death. It was time for Judy to return home to help her father and surviving siblings in the years after the Civil War. Classmates and family in Ohio filled a thin volume with keepsake verses written wit...

It's the 1950s. Dorothy and Elaine Brent are sisters with very little in common. Dorothy follows the law as a profession; Elaine follows her heart with a troubled Vietnam vet. During the next four decades, their lives follow different paths but are always entwined in the legacy of being born as Brents in central Virginia. Differences that place them on a collision course about the land and family.

It's 1946 and Carol Brent has a new husband, a new home, and a new extended family. She struggles to learn the eccentricities of the Brents, intrigued by four spinster sister cousins locked in the past and confounded by a father-in-law who despises everyone. If Carol is to save her marriage, she must help her husband accept his mother's death while he served in World War II. A death for which he feels responsible. The arrival of their first child forces choices and revelations.

It's 1930 in central Virginia. Elliott Brent is a young attorney seeking to establish himself in his practice, his marriage, and local politics. He's torn between the family farm mismanaged by his brother and the legal practice dominated by his father-in-law. One pro bono assignment entwines Elliott's life with that of a socialite establishing herself as a genealogist. The ensuing decade sees Elliott advance and retreat as World War II looms.

It's the 1990s. Jemima Hunter is the rising heir apparent of Brent family land and responsibilities. Glaringly apparent is her direct conflict with her aunt's plans for development that continue beyond Dorothy Brent's death. It's up to Jem to carry the family forward while surviving as a lesbian in central Virginia, home of one-man-one-woman legislation instigated by Dorothy Brent.

'I cannot imagine setting sail without it' SAIL'A must for all aspiring ocean crossers' Yachting WorldWe call it 'The Pond', yet the Atlantic Ocean covers one fifth of the surface of our planet and one third of its surface area of water. It is still a mighty big pond to cross! Realising the dream of an Atlantic crossing remains a challenge but the rewards are many and lifelong.The Atlantic Crossing Guide is well established as the standard reference for any...