Rosie Moon is a sixteen year old farm girl growing up in the southernmost foothills of Appalachia in Northwest Alabama. Her story begins in the summer of 1969 when relatives come to spend the summer in her small mountain community of Ben Johnson Ridge. She takes a special interest in her youngest cousin, a ten year old girl named Janie Noble; a child filled with grief, anger and guilt after witnessing her father's suicide. During that passionate season of free love Rosie and Janie become almost inseparable as tragedy and danger force them into a family bond of survival when a mostly...

"Heart of Stone - Remembering Tat Bailey" is a look back at Tyrus Cobb "Tat" Bailey's life and, hopefully, I have written his story in a way to highlight his extraordinary sense of humor and natural generosity. Tat was not always the easiest man to get along with. This account of his life and times will undoubtedly shed some light on how he was affected by childhood heartbreak and hardships. It is my utmost wishes that Tat be remembered for his jovial personality and good works... rather than his prickly family relationships... or the misbehavior that he intended to be humorous. As we look...