Carol Ervin

• Sep-2012
• / Historical
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Untrue things are rumored of May Rose, but it's true she's too pretty for her own good. Her husband has disappeared, and now she's on her own in a rough town ruled by one of the lumber companies logging the last of West Virginia's virgin forest. The ...

• Oct-2013
• / Action Adventure
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When feisty Wanda Wyatt is left widowed, penniless, and disturbed by recent fits of rage, she turns to the one person she hates--her grandmother, ex-moonshiner Lucie Bosell. Lured by a vague invitation, she travels back to her mountain roots with two...

• Oct-2014
• / Historical
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Fifteen years have passed with only the exchange of letters among three families connected by love and misfortune. Now remnants of these families reunite when May Rose follows her reckless stepdaughter Wanda to a West Virginia ghost town. The town ha...

• May-2015
• / Romantic Suspense
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Love and Danger On the eve of a country music festival, three people meet in the West Virginia mountains: Angela, a singer with a wounded voice; B.L., a delusional ex-con on a dangerous quest to prove himself; and Rudy, who's chasing an old drea...

• Aug-2015
• / Science Fiction
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• Jul-2016
• / Historical
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In 1918, Winkler explodes from a community of 13 helpful souls to a crowded coal mining town of strangers with divided loyalties. War in faraway Europe means more money in the pockets of May Rose and her friends, but as a new wife and mother she feel...

• Feb-2017
• / Historical
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Dreams can become nightmares. May Rose has the husband, family, and boardinghouse she wanted, but managing business and doing her best for loved ones make challenging days and troubled nights. Now her husband is ailing, someone from the past is tryin...

• Aug-2017
• / Historical
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Problems abound for May Rose, her family and Winkler friends in the spring of 1920. Her half-brothers are trying to steal her inheritance; her stepdaughter is in the midst of a risky pregnancy; and 16-year-old Evie, her step-granddaughter, wants to m...

• Mar-2018
• / Historical
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For May Rose, it’s a summer of challenge and loss. Wanda and her family move away, love triangles confound her friends, and a competitor threatens the success of the boardinghouse. Then even more urgent matters arise -- menacing waters, a demented ...

• Aug-2018
• / Historical
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The path to progress is never smooth

Winkler is changing from a company-owned town to one with a few private homes and businesses. Among these are a hospital, a newspaper, a movie theater, and the Eat and Sleep, now owned by May Rose and her...

• Feb-2019
• / Historical
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Caught in the middle... What begins as a quiet summer turns hectic and unsettling as May Rose is burdened by the troubles of the preacher, rivalries among friends, and the potential loss of dear ones. Though discontent and unhappiness abound, she's u...

• Jul-2019
• / General Fiction
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Life will get better, so they say. Through the spring and winter of 1923, May Rose says it too, as losses, scandals, and threats affect people she cares about. Though she's blessed with the ingenuity and courage of her husband, friends, and family, s...

• Jan-2020
• / General Fiction
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Going on with grace and goodwill:In 1924, May Rose and her community come together to help others survive tragedy and loss, even as they struggle to find inspiration for their own way forward. In the midst of changing times, her husband contemplates ...

• Apr-2020
• / Historical
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A Prequel to the Mountain Women SeriesTraveling with her uncle's family to the Dakota Territory in 1887, May Rose meets the enchanting, exciting Jamie Long. She's a dutiful, innocent girl, and at 17 she's new to the touch of a man. Blindly in love an...

• Dec-2020
• / General Fiction
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Some say the new woman in town is a troublemaker, but Winkler is already in trouble. Two years after the stock market crash, hard times have come to everyone. As the population declines and the mine threatens to close, May Rose and her friends work t...

• Oct-2021
• / General Fiction
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The Series FinaleIn the final years of her life, May Rose leaves the boardinghouse and makes her home in the cottage on Wanda's farmland, where she's surrounded by old friends, the Watsons. They've always treated her like family, but in 1976 new chal...

• Oct-2023
• / General Fiction
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A heartwarming story from the author of the Mountain Women Series In a remote mountain town, an extended family looks forward to gathering at Christmas. But one of them is missing-Charlie, a deputy sheriff. Though loved and admired, Charlie is not we...

• Oct-2024
• / Historical
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Was it a mistake to leave Winkler? Was it a mistake to leave him, or were those years apart meant to be?In her decades of happiness with her second husband, May Rose often wishes she'd married him the first time he'd asked. But maybe those 15 years s...

• Dec-2024
• / General Fiction
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There are only two residents of the piney wetland along Wack Road: Finley Wack, recycler and handyman, and Sara-Lapis Hughes, Slappy to her family. Regrettably, Sara-Lapis owns her first house, the derelict property inherited by herself and seven bro...