All she wants is to forget. All he wants is to keep her alive so that she will remember.

Laurel has a secret, something she’s never told a soul. When Laurel McCreary returns to her mountain home six years after the murder of her father, she hopes her past won’t come back to haunt her. Literally. Her daddy’s murder, her momma’s health crisis. It’s all too much. Laurel’s selective memory loss helps her deal with the grief of her daddy, but the pain is still there. Pain, she blames on God.

Days after her arrival back home, a familiar voice visits her in a dream. The voice launches a series of events that might well tell the truth about the community’s twenty-year-old coal mine disaster and her father’s murder. Her life suddenly turns fifteen shades of Appalachian crazy. Who’s at fault for the mine disaster? Who killed her daddy? And why, oh why, is someone constantly trying to kill her? Laurel needs the truth. The truth might cost her life.

Grayson Anderson has been in love with Laurel for six years. If only she would allow herself to remember. She has blocked any memory that connects to her father which sadly includes him. Can Grayson save her from the craziness that sets its sights on her? With the help of some good mountain folk, Laurel begins a journey of forgiveness and redemption amidst complete chaos. Is it all too late? Or will Laurel’s life end and put her and her secret buried beneath the dogwood trees in the family cemetery.

Her anger burns from her past. His heart breaks for his future.

Such an unthinkable thing. Caroline Daviess abducted and assaulted. Four years later, this one act has Caroline in a tornado of self-doubt and unforgiveness. She wants a new normal, but two unforeseen things occur at the same time. One, out of the blue Caroline’s violator, JW Hardin, is granted a governor’s pardon. Two, Grant Magoffin, Caroline’s ex-high school sweetheart and son of the nefarious Franklin Magoffin returns to town just as JW’s intentions become clear. Grant interrupted a bad situation and charged with returning Caroline to the safety of her family.

Once again, Appalachian craziness smolders in Maces Creek, KY. Who’s at fault this time? And what danger would come next? Caroline and Grant find themselves together and in a terrible path of destruction. An arsonist’s evil plan, a sniper’s bullet, evil drug dealers, and an abduction that gives way to the Army of the Lord. A little town’s terrible secret trying to cry out from the beautiful mountains containing it.

Can Caroline forgive so that she can find her new normal? Can Grant forgive himself for not protecting the only girl he’d ever love? And what about JW? Will his obsession cost them their lives? Or will someone else emerge only to bury them beneath the smoldering past that threatens them all?

She needs peace in her present. He needs the truth about their past.

The last ten years of Morgan Magoffin’s life has been a prison. The last ten years of Clay Carter’s life has too-literally. Clay Carter was harshly incarcerated for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and for being the father of Morgan Magoffin’s unborn child. After years of miscommunications, misunderstandings and assumptions, Morgan and Clay are thrown back into Maces Creek, KY together, working side by side for Morgan’s brother.

Morgan’s one impulse decision changed the course of her history. A history ugly and complicated by her father’s evil interference and Clay’s sentence in federal prison. Now he’s back home and craziness is running amuck. Morgan and Clay are being hunted down like cold, wet dogs for knowing what they don’t know.

Will they survive the unforeseen danger? Trailers exploding. Car chases. An old-fashioned gun fight on the town square. All these events working together to help solve a twenty-year mystery of greed and vengeance. A deadly truth that had been buried deep.

Welcome to Maces Creek, Ky where one out of five folks has lost their mind.