(NEWLY PUBLISHED: MAY 2026) Teenage lovers and musical partners Hazel Lattisaw and Erie Slocomb forge a lifelong path through bluegrass music, survival, and identity in a world that was never ready for either of them. A story of love, resilience, and two unforgettable women refusing to disappear — only to become feminist, lesbian and country music icons.

A successful Boston executive abandons his carefully built life and sets out in search of meaning, only to discover a 111-year-old Cherokee grandfather known throughout the South as the Unkillable Indian. What follows is a magical, eccentric journey of identity, healing, and the realization that what we seek may already be within us.

After the Ku Klux Klan destroys her family, eleven-year-old Annabelle Rose Cass tells her story from the afterlife, struggling to save her grieving brother from darkness and revenge. A magical journey of love, loss, redemption, and one unforgettable child discovering the mysteries and paradoxes of God and of humanity.

In 1928 Appalachia, Ruby Johnson—the last descendant of a feared line of witch-healers—must protect her family, her mountain, and her own identity in a world determined to take all three away. A story of magic, survival, destiny, and one young woman refusing to surrender her place in the world.

Fifteen-year-old James Freer has spent his entire life inside a psychiatric hospital, seeing a world full of impostors and reality through the lens of his brilliant, unruly imagination. A story of identity, madness, humor, and one unforgettable young man searching for where—and to whom—he truly belongs.

After witnessing the murder of her family at the outbreak of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Aniah Moray and her deaf younger sister flee across a war-torn Appalachia in search of safety and the last of their magical kin. A story of survival, identity, and two young girls finding courage and belonging in a world determined to break them.

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Jason Taylor Morgan is a novelist whose work is rooted in voice, visual prose, emotional depth, human transformation, and a lifelong search for truth.

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