In 1866, Judy Candler was nineteen and had lived in Ohio attending school since the death of her mother in 1857. Her mother's family fled Virginia in 1840 due to the conflict between their Quaker beliefs...

Andy Riggins has just begun sixth grade. He's also just witnessed a seventy-year-old World War II bomber return to battle ready condition. His father is deployed in the Middle East. Who is Andy to confide...

Peyton Dawson celebrates the end of tenth grade knowing he's gay. What he doesn't know is that his great-grandmother and great-aunt are the cornerstones of the small Southern town he'll soon be exiled...

Maggie Saunders is an almost sixty-year-old lesbian who's recovering from the loss of her partner. She lives on her family's farm next to a man-made lake. She interacts with natives and newcomers by boarding...

Tracey Stephens thinks she has her life in order. She follows her passion and works as a museum curator in Danville, Virginia. She plays with Ginny Daniels, a television reporter new to the intricacies...

It's the 1990s. Jemima Hunter is the rising heir apparent of Brent family land and responsibilities. Glaringly apparent is her direct conflict with her aunt's plans for development that continue beyond...

It's the 1950s. Dorothy and Elaine Brent are sisters with very little in common. Dorothy follows the law as a profession; Elaine follows her heart with a troubled Vietnam vet. During the next four decades,...

It's 1946 and Carol Brent has a new husband, a new home, and a new extended family. She struggles to learn the eccentricities of the Brents, intrigued by four spinster sister cousins locked in the past...

It's 1930 in central Virginia. Elliott Brent is a young attorney seeking to establish himself in his practice, his marriage, and local politics. He's torn between the family farm mismanaged by his brother...