Lew Temple

A small family finds hope in their extraordinary son named Sailboat when a personal gesture awakens a global desire. Armed with a 'little guitar,' Sailboat leads an offbeat cast into the miraculous story of the greatest secret never told.

Jenna is unhappily married. She squirrels away money and is hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant and her plans are thrown awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tolerates her sour boss Cal, is friends with her fellow waitresses, Dawn and Becky. She, also, finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town....

"Ex-inmate and musician, Jake Haynes, steals a car and travels to rural Arkansas hell bent on exacting revenge on his father, Henry, who abandoned him, but his plan begins to unravel as he discovers a complicated family history among the cotton fields and gospel churches. Through help of locals like Alvah and Maurice and finally through a forbidden romance with Nicole, he comes to understand the compexities of family and the virtue of forgiveness"--Back...

In a gold-rush boomtown that has gone bust, a prospector strikes gold - and is murdered. Sheriff James Ambrose assumes the killer to be a newcomer, a former enslaved person who calls himself Cicero. But as it becomes clear that Cicero is innocent, and as the mystery of the prospector's death deepens and puts the whole town in jeopardy, the town's new minister, Thaddeus Murphy must stand up to Sheriff Ambrose and bring the true culprit to justice.

The only thing more shocking than how it ended is how it all began! Born under unspeakable circumstances, a young orphan is taken in by the sick and demented Hewitt family and soon the seeds of a deranged murderer are planted.