Sown in Dark Soil

I had some very good news this week. My publisher emailed me that his wife had read Cleared for Planting and loved it. Therefore, he's ready to start the publishing process for the second book in my Appalachian Roots Series, Sown in Dark Soil, without waiting to see how the first one sells. I've already signed the contract, heard back from them, and we've begun the work.

Sown in Dark Soil is about Emma's grandson. It begins in 1854 on a plantation in Anson County, North Carolina, and moves to the Moretz farm in Watauga County.

Leah Morgan grew up on a plantation as her father’s favorite, and her sister, Ivy. is her mother’s. When their father dies and Mother tries to force them to marry men they don’t want, they leave with Ivy’s secret fiancé to go to his home in the mountains. On the journey, Ivy’s petty selfishness comes out, and Luke begins to have reservations, but he feels God

photo by Hugh Morton

wants him to keep his word. Even his Granny Em likes Leah better, and shes a shrewd judge of character. Leah finds it difficult keeping her sister on the right path, and Ivy causes one problem after another. In the end, all Granny Em, Luke, and Leah can do is depend on God to straighten everything out.

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