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It is 1951. Young Jake Conner gets on a bus to visit his cousins in the Mississippi Delta. But when the body of an unknown man is found in the Mississippi River, Jake's summer vacation gets a little more adventurous as he and his cousins snoop around in a mystery that is better left to the grown-ups. "Jake Conner, protagonist and narrator of this coming of age novel, reminds me of Mattie in True Grit and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird. Sharp eyes tempered with childhood simplicity." Delta Magazine "First time novelist, Paul H. Yarbrough, masterfully transports readers deep into the world of...

Ten-year-old Charlie McCoy and his friends are curious about the fire up at the abandoned house on the outskirts of town. Since the grown-ups aren't saying much, and anything really interesting spoken in shushed tones, the boys may need to do a little digging on their own. Meanwhile, they avoid the specter of school looming in their immediate futures with playing ball, fishing, and discussing which business to start: junk collecting or selling rabbit tobacco. Even more than the mysterious fire, Charlie is intrigued by Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player in the major leagues. And...

Dr. Carol Bartholomew, once an intern for prominent scientist Dr. Michael Nostrum, now a successful scientist in her own right, has spent the last eighteen years working alongside her mentor on a confidential project. With the help of her good friend and nurse, Jackie, she has managed to maintain the secrecy of the experiment. Amidst the experiment, exists a world of its own where homeless teens and adults are disappearing by the hundreds, politicians are plotting and planning their state and nationwide takeovers, and outcasts have found solace in an underground cult. While detectives Hughes...