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A funeral, a ghost, a murder… It's all in a day's work for Emma Lee Raines… Bopped on the head from a falling plastic Santa, local undertaker Emma Lee Raines is told she's suffering from "funeral trauma." It's trauma all right, because the not-so-dearly departed keep talking to her. Take Ruthie Sue Payne-innkeeper, gossip queen, and arch-nemesis of Emma Lee's granny-she's adamant that she didn't just fall down those stairs. She was pushed. Ruthie...

At the age of ten, an Appalachian girl develops croaks, jerks and spasms, which leads to her explusion from school. After treatment--she has Tourette's syndrome--she learns to control herself, attends college and there is a happy ending.

Hiding out in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky, Beth Venable, a witness to a major mob hit who even the FBI can't protect, dreams of a new life with Ryal Walker, the man she's always wanted, but must survive her old one first.

As the search for Perry Borntrager's killer continues, Jacob Shrock, who got into a fistfight with Perry, feels like his world is about to crumble, and he wonders if Deborah, Perry's sister, will believe what everyone seems to think is the truth or listen to her heart.

"Having buried her painful past, Emma Browning begins to wonder if healing and forgiveness are possible after all when the handsome preacher becomes the new tenant at her boardinghouse"--Provided by publisher.

"Following God's leading, mail-order bride Sarah Woodward arrives in Little Hickman Creek, Kentucky, and enters into a marriage in name only with Rocky Callahan to help him raise his orphaned niece and nephew"--Provided by publisher.