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The people of Maple Gap say that Iris Littleton drowned her son thirty-years ago and that the old witch waits for his return. A shy hermit, Iris lives in a mountain cabin just below Devil’s Backbone. One morning, she recites an incantation over a cup of tea. As smoke fills the room and her vision fades, she pleads to the spirits to return her son. Within minutes, a school bus careens off the road. The driver sends a terrified boy named Henry Mayfield to her door. Iris does more than let the boy use her phone. Set in a dark corner of Appalachia, The Winter Calf is the first novel in the Maple Gap Series. Keywords: childhood, women's fiction, mountain witch, Appalachia, hillbilly, abortion, child abuse, Virginia, Highland County, Charlottesville
In this prequel to "The Winter Calf", Iris Littleton is alarmed when the handsome stranger knocking on her door offers more than meets the eye. Later, a voice leads her high onto the mountain where she finds the skull of a lost child.
The world believes the botnet virus to be destroyed; Ridley Pierce is less certain. In a lonely chat-room, he meets Beta, who claims who to have evolved from the intelligence. At the same time, Diane Kingsolver is haunted by the knowledge that her infant daughter’s autism is the result of genetic engineering. She vows to find out who introduced the gene into the population. Neither realizes that powerful forces want to stop them before the true cause of the Great Collapse comes to light.
The AI appeared as a child but became their last hope. As the Great Collapse becomes a distant memory, Ridley Pierce knows that the botnet virus will eventually return. With his newly earned fortune, he convinces Diane Kingsolver to help him battle fire with fire, creating a sentient intelligence to defend humanity. Lucy appears to them as a child, but he suspects that she has secrets. When she devises a way to upload the minds of the newly deceased, he wonders if she is plotting humanity’s downfall – or if she will take the population into the stars.
Time is lost to the stars. History is endless. Ridley Pierce awakens to find himself captured in a digital world. Did Lucy save him? Or imprison him? Diane cannot be believed. She claims they are lost in the stars but he has no way to know for sure. With no clues to follow, he returns again and again to simulations of Seattle. There, he learns a terrible truth. The conclusion of the Cerenovo series.
An American soldier fights for her family while a second fights for his sanity. Kate Hendricks returns from Iraq physically and emotionally broken only to see her family fall apart. Murderer Sherman Croft flees to Alaska to find a new start — and instead finds a following. When the two meet on a lone stretch of the Alaska Highway, Kate fights first for her life - and then her family.
Old Momma is a moose with a taste for cabbage; Allen Grundig is a widower with a taste for moose. A sentimental short story set in Alaska.
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