Historical Fiction

Sylvia Drake enjoys a life filled with simple pleasures in 1857. She loves her Appalachian Mountains, but doesn’t want to remain in Hickory Hollow forever. Her parents even begin preparations for her to attend college.

Just as her dreams seem to be coming true, her world is shattered. As if the losses aren’t bad enough, she finds someone has ventured into madness, and the time has come for everyone to pay the price.

Tyler was an avid hiker. He knew the area around Roan Mountain as well as he did most of the Blue Ridge highlands. He didn’t know Walnut Lodge. The strange structure seemed to appear out of the air. He finds a strange and beautiful world of wealth and privilege, but something is not right. The evening turns darker as night progresses, and he discovers he may not escape the resort alive.