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Unlikely Candidate is now available on Amazon!

Magnolia (Maggie) Louise Masters Culbertson asks a question, “What do you have to do to run for President of the United States?” Her husband, Craig, and friend, Rocky, explore the early states and discover she has powerful support.
The country is in a turmoil, and she can improve it with her calm demeanor, witty outlook on life, and Christian values. Her experience as a U.S. Senator, Special Counsel for the State of Tennessee and mayor of Possum Ridge, Tennessee are in her favor.
When she announces her candidacy, someone slips a note into her hand. It reads, “You will not live to be president.” That won’t happen.
Maggie’s stubbornness to make the country better prevails. She is unstoppable and has a secret few know about.
She happily watches her secretary, Loretta Little, and security guard, Kenneth Anderson, fall in love while she runs for office.
Can she save the country from this den of lions?

Nothing Shady Ever Happens in Shady Valley Series

Daisy McQueen, owner of Smart Living Enterprises, arrives in Shady Valley to fulfill the stipulation in her grandmother’s will. She must live in Shady Valley for six months. This big city girl is not happy. She loves the conveniences of the city, not people walking through her property in the middle of the night. Bachelor Harry Greer takes protecting her into his own hands. Then he falls in love with her. Will they find whoever is crossing from the Appalachian Trail to her property?

Liberty Garcia, Recipe Creator for Smart Living, accidentally finds Harry Greer at The Raceway Restaurant. She is running from a murderer and trying to save her father’s gold doubloons.

Matt Sluder becomes her protector.

Liberty runs from the killer and escapes death several times. If a cat has nine lives, how many lives does she have?
Can Liberty escape the killer and keep the doubloons?

Bruce and Grace Howard, body guards for Daisy McQueen Greer and Smart Living, are married and expecting a baby. Grace is in her forties, and this is her first pregnancy. Bruce is having flashbacks to his early childhood, but the parents are different. A neighbor recognizes him as his brother’s son. Is Bruce a stolen baby and is someone trying to steal their baby? Nothing shady ever happens in Shady Valley. Or does it?

Books that have lived in my heart for the last few years

In 1798, Callie Trent travels with her parents to the frontier of Tennessee in a wagon train. Before they reach the settlement, her father tells her he has arranged a marriage with her and Jacob McGinnis, a man she has never met. Callie objects to the marriage, but when she meets Jacob, he.s not that bad. She has come to the mountains to teach the children in the settlement, not to get married. Before they reach the settlement, three of the meanest men from the ridge attacked them, three Mulengeons. Callie learns about the Melungeons and becomes interested in their history. No one knew when they came to the ridge. They are strange in physical appearance and their ways. There is much prejudice against them. She befriends one family and teaches them how to read and write.
Jacob loves Callie, but she doesn’t want to encourage him. She wants to teach school before she marries, but the three Melungeon men have other plans.