After she’s murdered by a sexual predator, 18-year-old Jada Gayle must stay among the living until she finds and stops the Internet stalker who killed her. When the Afterlife Admissions Office assigns the now “transdead” Jada to a foster home back among the living, she assumes the identity of a homeless teen and is expected to simply fit in as she hunts down her killer. Then she meets Lew Stanton—captain of the chess team and computer whiz who makes her dead heart beat phantom rhythms in h...

Jaycee's mother dies when she's six and leaves her with an alcoholic father. All the kids at school make fun of her, and she spends most of her time fighting. This is the story of how a very special teacher makes a difference in Jaycee's life that gives her the hope she needs to survive.**Finalist in the 2015 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest**

Sweet Home Alabama.Have a slice of Alabama Literature. This collection brings you over 20 authors from the Gulf Coast in Alabama, including USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHORS Carolyn Haines and Craig A. Price Jr., Award Winning author Jodie Cain Smith and several others, including some first time publications.This is a fantastic anthology with many types of short stories and poems incl...

When Jaycee Stevens is six years old, her mother dies and leaves her with an abusive drunk of a father who only remembers she’s there when she gets in trouble. She grows up a foul-mouthed hellion who doesn’t take crap off anyone, and she lives in fear of anyone finding out she's also a love-starved little girl terrified of the dark. By the time she's seventeen, Jaycee has outrageous behavior down to an art. Her intrepid spirit carries her to college on an athletic scholarship, but she's tr...

JoJo and Sam have been best friends since he moved in next door when they were five years old. JoJo has always liked the ways Sam is different from other boys, but now that they’re both 14, he’s changing in ways she’s not so sure she likes. Just when she thinks she’s getting used to his new muscles and the way other girls are looking at him, she sees the bruises on his back and knows his step-father is beating him. JoJo tries to get Sam to leave, but he says he can’t desert his mom and ste...

He'll love her as long as he lives. And longer . . .What if you finally get the chance to live a life that makes a difference, but it doesn't happen until after you're dead? This second book in the Unfinished Series by the acclaimed author of After Me and the True Blue Trilogy proves that it's never too late to find your true north.Like so many men in Alabama, Wade Strickland's father thinks God created football on the 8th day. He makes Wade start using steroids when he's 1...

Jessica Cassady is a copyeditor for a small newspaper in Georgia where her husband Lee is a sportswriter. When he attends a convention in New York, Jess is shocked when she calls his room in the middle of the night and a woman answers. Lee swears things aren't what they seem, but Jess isn't so sure. She decides changes need to be made. After she kicks him out, Lee realizes just how much he's lost and tries his best to win her back. Things become even more complicated when Noah Hamilton, a ...

Cal Pardue and his grandfather have taken care of each other just fine without any women in their lives, then Hurricane Katrina destroys their house and forces them to live on their crab boat. When Amos has to go into a nursing home after a hip injury, Cal is suspicious of Jasmine Gregory, the beautiful but annoying social worker who takes a shine to his grandfather. And wouldn't you know it--Cal and Jasmine discover their animosity stems from a mutual attraction neither of them wants to a...

A young couple takes shelter from a storm in an abandoned cabin. They may have escaped the rain, but they can't escape the darkness that drove them there.

17-year-old Jaycee Stevens doesn't plan to stay a second longer than necessary in the rural Alabama town where she grows up with an abusive, alcoholic father. Usually, everything Jaycee does is focused on either getting a college scholarship in softball or pretending to her boyfriend Cole that she's a lot tougher than she really is. When Cole finds out she has a Valentine's Day tradition with a boy who's had a crush on her since third grade, he knows there's a lot more to this blonde tempe...

Clay has hit JoElla more times than she can count, but she’s never considered leaving him until one day the week before Christmas. Something finally makes her realize that she and her little girl deserve better, but what will happen to them if they leave, and where will they go? Find out what makes JoElla take that first step.

Short prequel to the novel True Blue Forever. Eleven-year-old boys Billy Joe DuBose, Wade Strickland and Mickey Royal fall in love with Jeana Russell at the fifth grade honors program when they hear her recite the poem she wrote. Which boy will succeed in winning her heart?