Chris Buckley's fear turns to anger as he tries in vain to find someone he can confide in about the strange events and encroaching darkness in the small town of Solitary, North Carolina.
When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
After her beloved father's death in 1977, eleven-year-old tomboy Chip tries to fit with her family of beauty queens, making unlikely new friends at Miss Vernie's unusual charm school in Mt. Airy, North Carolina.
Louis Benfield moves to New York City from his hometown of Neely, North Carolina, and takes a job at Meridian Life and Casualty, but when he is demoted to assistant handyman, he finds himself moving through odd jobs and looking for love and experience in all the wrong places.
Lt. Cam Richter of the Manceford County, North Carolina, sheriff's department, faces pressure and threats from all sides when he is assigned to investigate the vigilante murders of two lowlifes who killed a gas station attendant and several innocent bystanders and were then let off on a technicality by a stubborn judge who just happens to be Richter's ex-wife and sometimes lover.
On each of the twelve days of her Christmas visit with her cousin Mike, Abby sends her parents a letter describing the history, geography, animals, and interesting sights of North Carolina. Uses the cumulative pattern of the traditional carol to present amusing state trivia at the end of each letter.
