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Lost Souls Recovered is the book you can hold. Belly of the Beast is under contract. Beta Reader is still being written.
Out now · Torchflame Books · 2022
A historical novel inspired by a true story. After a death on a Virginia plantation in 1887, a young man flees south — toward kin, toward a name of his own, and into the long shadow of a war that has not finished with him.
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Twenty-one-year-old Sebastian Hawkins has a Yale degree, a future already drawn, and a story his family never proved: land taken from his great-great-great-grandfather, Pony Hawkins, in Lawrence County, Alabama. A county archivist finds a deed. In 1876, Pony bought an acre. Two years later, a paper calls the transfer a gift. A hundred and fifty years later, Sebastian fights to recover the land — and the name — that fear taught the family to leave buried.
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Beta Reader
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Clarkston McClaren is a teacher without a classroom, a father behind on the court order, and a novelist who believes the advance will make everyone whole. A beta reader named Sam tells him to put the book in a small town and make the past feel alive. The manuscript opens. So does Brighton County, Ohio — a town that would rather its history stay buried.
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