In 1883, life is simple for two sisters who live on a farm outside the Quaker village of Hadley, Indiana. The girls go to school in a one room school house and study in the light of coal oil lamps. Their father has Bible reading and evening prayer before they retire to bed. Farm life is hard, but their religious beliefs are comforting. The days continue, until the older sister, Mattie, accepts a proposal of marriage. Young Livvy expects life on the farm to change when her sister gets married. Change strikes sooner than anyone expected. When her Mattie is murdered before her eyes, Livvy goes...

THE CRY NOBODY HEARD The Cry Nobody Heard tells the tale of Tammy, a seventeen-year-old who feels detached from her family. With a sketchy home life and an uncertain future, this serious-minded girl's dreams seem beyond her grasp. Tammy's mother lives perilously and exposes Tammy and her siblings to a dangerous drug-dealing boyfriend who turns their world upside down, forcing Tammy to lose herself in a dismal place that is contrived to destroy her. But she will soon find out that her trials have been tailored to deliver her and her family to a place called freedom. Annie Johnson's debut novel...

A collection of sonnets about life and love. For the people who read my poems and say, "I've felt like that before, but I couldn't express with words what I was feeling."

This book is a collection of my poetry from my earliest efforts to my latest. I am a mood writer and write when the mood strikes me - which may or may not be often. I have had many muses during my life as a poet and couldn't have written without them. A poet finds inspiration in many ways - unconventional ways to those who are not writers. We are strange creatures in the way we are able see a face in a fallen leaf or the universe reflected in a puddle. The Heavens filled with bright stars and moonlight are a constant inspiration to me. I hope you enjoy my humble poetry and that it enables you...