With this third book in his Resurrected Memories Series, Jim Herman combines two unique stories into one plot twisting murder mystery. The actual boyhood home of the author, Cajah's Mountain, projects both an ominous and dangerous location for the plight of one individual striving to retain his sanity. The main character's outward struggle, with a murderer on the loose, conflicts vividly with his inward struggle of current and past memories battling for control. This third book by the author follows his first two: Resurrected Memories The Story of a Lifetime and Voyage to America 1766. More...

Beginning with the death of Abel Herman in a Civil War prison camp in 1864, memories are resurrected by his great, great grandson. From despair inside this prison camp to the passionate hope for a family that almost never happened, more than one hundred years later, memories come alive on every page. Focusing primarily on the decades of the 1940s, '50s and '60s in the rolling foothills of western North Carolina, encounters with people and places long lost and forgotten are brought to life again. From youth to young adulthood, memories containing danger, humor and a sense of honor are relived...

Without the use of modern technology, James Hawley Muller experiences time travel to the decade of the 1950s. Expectations of finding past happiness and comfort are confronted with tragic reality in the small bustling town of Lenoir, North Carolina. A dramatic conclusion to his romp through the past ends with a twist that Muller himself did not expect or foresee.

In the 18th Century over 50,000 people left their homeland in Germany, their Deutschland, for America. One-fourth never survived the treacherous six month voyage across the stormy Atlantic Ocean. Mostly settling in Pennsylvania--on free land from William Penn and his "Holy Experiment"--they raised their families and began a new life in a strange new land shared by Native Americans and wild animals. Later, with the ending of the American Revolutionary War, some migrated down The Great Wagon Road and resettled again, on virgin land in the Carolinas. One of these pioneers-Johannes Wilhelm...

Reaching deeply into his own past, the main character's memory of his entrance into high school in the year 1956, crashes vividly with the present, during a visit to locate past friends and places...more than fifty years later. Who and where are these teen friends from the past, and what has changed since the bygone era of the birth of Rock and Roll? These questions, and more are answered in a dramatic, plot-twisting conclusion that creates a sense of nostalgia and a longing for what could have been.