A cook rediscovers her passion… Thanks to a new chef in town If she’s to keep her diner afloat, single mom Ivy Parker must overhaul her menu. When high-profile chef Cam Monroe comes to Second Chance, she’s wary of asking for help. Would a perfectionist like him approve of the corners she cuts to find time for her children? But as Cam helps her rediscover her love for cooking, Ivy finds they have more in common than she expected…

FORMER MAYOR James Northan isn't on speaking terms with Windy Mountain's other two old men.So it comes as an unpleasant surprise for him when he is forced into sharing a house with them for three months.It's so he can stay safe from this awful pandemic (that he denies).But while he resigns himself to a future of face masks, hand-sanitiser and a life of much less luxury than he is used to in the company of two buffoons, he gets more unpleasant surprises.Never...

Scott Williamson Thompson has established himself in the region as an Artisan, Poet and Songwriter. Scott lives on a lake nestled in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee and has looked to the beauty of those mountains to inspire all of his artistic creations. This is a collection of his observations and original poetry that portrays what the mountains express to his heart.

Death. Drugs. Danger.When her boyfriend ends up dead, crime blogger, Sofie Marino, wants answers. Nobody's taking his death seriously.Three additional deaths in three weeks, all related to heroin or fentanyl, can't be a coincidence. As Sofie seeks the truth, the danger level rises. For some reason, the cartel ringleaders want her dead.DEA agent, Caleb Daniels, saves Sofie's life and starts falling for her, but being good at his job might put him at...

Set in Tennessee's postcard-perfect Smoky Mountains, Lin Stepp's Makin' Miracles is an inspiring tale that reveals why love and forgiveness are most important just when they seem most impossible. . . Zola Devon has always been a little different. Half Tahitian, with long black hair and dark eyes, she's especially distinctive in the mountain town of Gatlinburg. She even stocks her gift shop, Nature's Corner, with items that reflect her island heritage...

Their beloved little home was full of love... but it still felt empty. Samantha and Adam Klaassen started married life in the cozy little home built into the hill at the back of the Klaassen family farm. When they began looking forward to their own family, they knew they would need a real house with more room. But now the silent bedrooms in the farmhouse built with such love and hopefulness by her husband haunt Samantha's days and nights. Why does...

A debut novelist casts a satirical eye at southern society while celebrating the power of great teachers in this award-winning comedy of manners. As an English teacher at an elite private school in Mountain Brook, Alabama, Norman Laney is as unorthodox as he is morbidly obese. A natural wonder from the blue-collar South, Laney has barged into the exclusive world of Mountain Brook with a mission to defeat "the barbarians," introduce true civilization...

This is book 2 in the Mountain Brides series. In 1888, there weren't many opportunities for a young girl of only eighteen to support herself in a place like Galveston Texas, unless she was willing to compromise her principles. That was why Jessica's guardian, an old man who had owed her late father a debt, proposes she become a mail-order bride. That and because Jessica wasn't easy to support. Flaherty, her guardian had spent a great deal more than...

It's 1812 on the Upper Missouri. Mountain man Edward Rose fights with the Crow against the Hidatsa. Meanwhile on the border with Canada, old animosities flare-up as trappers from two nations meet head on. America's second War of Independence is starting.

In a heartwarming novel set amid the lush splendor of the Great Smoky Mountains, Lin Stepp reunites two kindred spirits in a charming story of first love and surprising second chances... See ya later--and love you forever, Rhea Dean. Those are the words Rhea's childhood sweetheart, Carter Layman, used to say whenever they parted. Not that she places much stock in words anymore. After all, Carter drove off to college in California, promising to make...