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"Embers In Ashes, A Civil War Love Story"
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Joli Stewart is raised in the lap of luxury on her father's plantation near Charleston, South Carolina. High spirited, non-traditional and head strong, Joli refuses to accept any interference in her life or her romantic decisions. Follow her life during times of plenty and deprivation. Lose yourself in romantic interludes, times of joy and celebration as well as desperate seasonss of sorrow. Characters come alive and you will find yourself on an intriguing journey through The Old South.
"Enbers In Ashes: A Civil War Love Story" is a historical novel worth reading. Extensive research and characters who come alive, will lead you through opulent times, ruin, courage to endure and rise from the ashes. If you are familiar with the South and its history, "Embers To Ashes" will seem like a homecoming of times long passed. If you are not from the South and have never thought or studied about its history, this book will become a treasure chest of the dialect, customs and trials of her rise and fall. I believe this is the best book I have ever written and I would be honored to share it with you.
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MY NEWEST BOOKS​
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What I Love & What I Don't
A simple book about simple pleasures and loves. A reflection of the author's life in beautiful art and thoughtful words that will speak to your heart and awaken your emotions. .Experience how much you and the author have in common
Box Of Poems, Never Know What You'll Get
A book of poetry that resembles a delicious box of chocolates and you never know what you'll get on the next page but it'll be good. A mixed bag of many subjects and types of poems. So much to enjoy and to think about. If you like variety, this book's for you. Fun to read again and to share with friends.
One With Nature
Enjoy through poetic words, the beauty of nature. From seashores to rolling hills and majestic mountains, the poet offers glimpses of truth and beauty. From tree frogs to mountain lions, thrill to the diversity of creatures. Everything around us are reminders of the cohesiveness of creation. A collection of poetry sure to inspire your thoughts and enrich your soul
Uplifted
"Uplifted" is a small volume of honest prayers and the bibical answers to them. When it comes to what we can expect God to do, with Him it is always and forever promises made, promises kept. On these pages you will find real life situations and prayers and you will find the scriptural answers to many needs you may have. Read with a thoughtful mind, an open heart and you will be blessed
When Angels Dance
A volume of love poetry, from the soul to the page. The poetess expresses her love, devotion, and attraction to her husband. The collection offers tender love poems and fiery poetic declarations of passion. Read these poems and your belief in true love will be rekindled, Love will find you, even if it arrives late in life.
Novels & Novellas
All That Glitters (Sci Fi Fiction)
"All That Glitters: is not gold" is a SciFi novel that brings alive a cold dystopian world and a warm paradise. Unexpected twists and turns abound. Characters are brought to life in a world that could happen at any time. A lesson in the fact that everything is often not what it seems to be. The world, as most know it, has completely changed.
Fallen Woman (Literary Fiction)
Christina is young, inexperienced, impressionable, heartbroken and alone when Brother Eli chooses her to be his bride. Follow her long journey in the Pentecostal Fire Of The Spirit Church. Wounded and hopeless, fearful of eternal damnation, will she find her way out of a legalistic, artificial existence to become the real woman God created her to be?
The Witch's Cat (Historical Fiction)
The widow, Grace Sherwood, is a colonial farmer, compassionate healer and local midwife, who was born and lived her life in the coastal county of Princess Anne Virginia. Suddenly her whole world is turned upside down when she is accused of being a witch who transforms herself into a black cat and causes curses to come upon her neighbors. The story of Grace Sherwood, The Witch of Pungo is a well known historical tale from Virginia colonial times. Follow the legend in this imagining of what did and might have happened to her and her cat.
Skeletons In The Closet (Paranormal Fiction)
Lorna grows up in a decaying antebellum mansion where her best friends are a little girl from the distant past and a deformed cat. As she ages, Lorna realizes that the figures she sees in the family graveyard are not just figments of her overactive imagination. The spirit world has become as familiar to her as the present world. There are mysteries haunting the old plantation and questions no one can or will answer. Lorna must find a way to solve them on her own. A paranormal novella with a twisted plot.
Short Story Collections
Hardscrapple
Over the mountains and through the hollows, beside the rippling creeks and old log cabins, there are thousands of curious stories both humorous and sad, poignant and frightening that have been passed down from generation to generation. In this volume you'll enjoy imaginative tales about the land and the people who found their identities centered there. Stories of love and loss, pain and revenge. Tales of ghosts who haunt the overgrown graveyards and wander the backwoods trails chasing an elusive rest they will never find.
"Tell Us A Story, Gramma"
A book filled with adventure. On a snowy, winter day as they sit by the fire, the children ask Gramma for stories. Gramma recounts to her grandchildren, stories about their family that happened long ago and in recent years. Adventures to get lost in. Stories that foster family ties with an appreciation for history and the sacrifices made for family and country. Pop some popcorn and sit by the fire as you enjoy Gramma's stories
Strange Mountain Tales
There is nowhere on Earth spookier than a remote, mountain wilderness, or creepier than a lonely, forgotten graveyard. Are you brave enough to spend some time in an abandoned, old farmhouse with a tragic, haunted history or visit Baron's Hollow deep in the forest where no one ever goes?. Maybe you'd enjoy a face to face visit and heart to heart conversation with a ghost. Welcome inside the pages of "Strange Mountain Tales." where you will love the view but want to escape to a more down-to earth place.
Rest In Peace
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The Darkness
Vampires, Ghosts, Unexplained Paranormal Events, Fantastic Creatures, Twists Of The Macabre, Travels Through Time. Full Moon Nights When The Wind Moans Your Name Like A Mournful Song Floating Through An Old Graveyard . You'll Find Them All Inside The Cover. All Your Worst Nightmares And Fears Bundled Together In A Volume Of Macabre Stories
Little Book Of Horrors
A story of dark revenge in the Old South and a vacation from hell in the low country. Native American legend of an ancient evil. a mysterious, screaming harbinger of death and proof that ghosts can go home again. Late night encounters with the undead. Childhood traumas and pretty, little, stray kitties you will wish you had never taken home. An immigrant couple who take up residence in a tomb. Haunted houses and graveyards. Enjoy the shivers and chills of this collection of twisted tales and poems.
Dark Tales
Every Autumn, around the season of Halloween, author La Belle Rouge publishes a volume of macabre stories and poetry. If you have read her work in the horror genre, you know "DARK TALES" will provide thrills and chills for readers who enjoy less gore and more psychological horror stories. Sometimes the most ordinary places are backgrounds for the most extraordinary events and creatures. Familiar legends and ghost tales of North Carolina have been reimagined by the author to bring chills to her readers. It's definitely not a Mayberry RFD world! A book you'll want to read not only at the haunting season, but year-round.
No Time To Die
All new short stories to read on stormy nights or anytime you are willing to be frightened. In the title story a man who is deathly afraid of death or anything that reminds him of it, finds that he does have time for death after all. Witches not of the good sort, ghosts who insist on having the final word, cryptic, mysterious creatures who baffle the mind and jar the senses, blood thirsty fiends are all included in "No Time To Die." La Belle's pen never fails to give the reader chills and macabre thrills. Read this book and get creeped out. Explore the what if's and maybe's of the twisted kind.
Haunted
An Intriguing Volume Of The Strange And Paranormal Presented In Poetry And Short Stories.
Long Ago Far Away
Romance That Lives On.
Poetess Of The Heart La Belle Rouge leads The Reader on an enchanted journey through medieval castles, Celtic hillsides and beside exotic shores. Through the mists of time you'll catch a glimpse of a world where magic and chivilary thrived and dragons were more than a myth. From Medieval times to the lure of the Old South and the Old West, you'll treasure many fanciful fantasies of love and tragedy only found now in such volumes as this.
Knowing You
A volume of love poetry penned from the heart. Honest and vibrant expressions of love and passion from the pen of a contemporary poet of love and romance. A book to enjoy and cherish . Loving, sensual poetry to share with the one you love.
Short Story Collections
Over the mountains and through the hollows, beside the rippling creeks and old log cabins, there are thousands of curious stories both humorous and sad, poignant and frightening that have been passed down from generation to generation. In this volume you'll enjoy imaginative tales about the land and the people who found their identities centered there. Stories of love and loss, pain and revenge. Tales of ghosts who haunt the overgrown graveyards and wander the backwoods trails chasing an elusive rest they will never find.
"Tell Us A Story, Gramma" is a book filled with adventure. On a snowy, winter day as they sit by the fire, the children ask Gramma for stories. Gramma recounts to her grandchildren, stories about their family that happened long ago and in recent years. Adventures to get lost in. Stories that foster family ties with an appreciation for history and the sacrifices made for family and country. Pop some popcorn and sit by the fire as you enjoy Gramma's stories