Henderson County · Novels
Small-town Texas stories that do not stay buried. What Smoke Creek Kept is on Amazon now. Where Did the Fireflies Go is on Kindle pre-order for October 20, 2026. The Last Swing is still on the way.
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A Henderson County Novel
A confession. A drowning. A town built on the wrong story.
Smoke Creek has lived with its version of Ruth Ann Pruitt’s death for twenty years — a tragic accident, a life cut short, a community that moved on. But when a respected deacon confesses to causing her death, Pastor Elias Ward is forced to confront a truth that doesn’t fit the past he remembers.
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A Henderson County Novel
The last summer. A drowning. What a father finally tells.
A father sits in a dentist’s waiting room holding his ten-year-old daughter’s phone, and the afternoon takes him back to 1985 — his grandmother’s house, fourteen cousins, a mile-and-a-quarter walk to Pruitt’s for Dr Pepper, and a creek hole nobody ever measured.
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A Henderson County Novel
Emergency leave. A grandmother. The last two words she spent on hello.
Thanksgiving morning, 2001. Specialist Curtis Tull is on a gate in Korea when the Red Cross message finds him. His grandmother, Dessie Faye Wilkins, has had a stroke. The Army has him on a plane by noon.