Off-Broadway playwright and award-winning filmmaker, Dara Harper invites readers to Angelville, Florida, a fictitious city inspired by her childhood summers spent in the south. "Magic In Moon Time" is a powerful story of passion, faith, redemption and forgiveness. This novel is about a woman's self-discovery and the heartache and joy that follow. The year is 1929. The locals all take notice when Justine Phillips arrives in town, a beautiful woman with a shameful secret. She finds love but her marriage is soured by infertility. After nine years of trying to conceive, she pays a visit to a...

The follow-up novel from Off-Broadway playwright and award-winning filmmaker, Dara Harper is set in the author's hometown, Detroit, Michigan. This coming of age story follows 15-year-old Natalie Tillman's journey from Thomasville, Georgia to the Motor City in 1959. She and her parents move into a crowded west side flat with six other family members. Natalie struggles to adjust to life in the north, busy streets, integrated schools, beautiful cars, flirtatious men and freezing weather. The house overflows with food, laughter and music. But there's also abuse, alcoholism and painful secrets....