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The fourteen short stories in Betsey Barber Hampton's collection, A Time and a Place, offer a fresh new voice in southern fiction. Hampton, who began to write in her eighties, brings her charming...

Realtor Diana Rittenhouse is surrounded by April fools-fools for love, that is. Her oldest clients, her partner Liz, her stepdaughter Ginny, and even her elderly mother Viv, are planning weddings...

Realtor Diana Rittenhouse is as shocked as everyone else in her small North Carolina town when someone starts murdering their commissioners. The police believe the deaths are unrelated. After all,...

In 1868 Confederate War hero, Tom Dooley, returned to North Carolina to marry his longtime sweetheart, but became romantically involved with her two cousins. When his fiancee was brutally murdered,...

The stories in FAMILY SECRETS are stories about the complexities in the lives of everyday people. They are stories about the fragility of life and the intricate web of experiences woven into them...

These unforgettable stories featuring fourteen strong women are expertly told in Hampton's distinctive voice. Most hail from fictional "Dixon"-black, white, rich, poor. They all struggle to overcome...