Appalachian Justice (Cedar Hollow Series Book 1)

She hasn’t opened her door to anyone in thirty years. Tonight, someone is out there.In 1945, fourteen-year-old Billy May Platte was hunted down and left for dead in a West Virgina coal town when what began as suspicion erupted into brutal violence. She survived, but the girl she had once been did not. By sunrise, Billy May had vanished into the mountains, carrying a secret the town would never forget.For thirty years, she’s lived alone in a hidden cabin on Crutcher Mountain, door bolted against the world. Then, on a freezing winter night, a terrified young girl stumbles out of the darkness bloody and desperate. Someone is after her, and they know exactly where she is.As winter tightens its grip and old shadows rise from the hollows, Billy May faces a choice: keep her door locked and stay hidden from the world, or open it at last and unleash a reckoning thirty years in the making.Global Ebook Gold Medal Winner in 2013, a finalist for the University of North Carolina-Wilmington’s Synergy Program in 2013, and voted Sapphic Readers Book Club Book of the Year in 2011 (under a different imprint), this haunting novel explores trauma, resilience, identity, and the cost of silence in a world where secrets can kill. Read more