Tin Moon: A Southern Coming-of-Age Saga

The bygone feel of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES meets the Southern spunk of PRAIRIE EVERS, with a heaping helping of North Carolina charm woven together with an otherworldly element.

“This is a wonderful coming of age story of a feisty main character and her life.” ~Susan R.

“One of the best books I’ve read in a while.” ~Amazon Review

“The protagonist’s voice was so unique, vivid and ‘real’ that I found I wanted to know her story... I loved the world I found myself in.” ~Nhys Glover

Ninety pounds can sink any man.

Nora is given a choice: stay in her daddy’s house or turn Rathe Cravis’ house into a home she can stand to love. Maybe even be proud of. If you knew her daddy, you’d know marrying a practical stranger at seventeen is the lesser of two evils.

And it’s a good life in Granville County, North Carolina...until the suspicious disappearance of Nora’s little sister, Shailene, drives her farther from family and closer to the hand of Death.

To the man calling her name.

During a decade of secrets, Nora’s friendships and the clues to her sister redefine her unconventional life, leading down a murky path to a truth embroiled in the worst kind of theft.

Nora learns more ways than one how ninety pounds can sink any man. Will it be her undoing or her salvation?

Had you asked me before I married Rathe, before she left us, what the world was like, I would have said God shaped the moon in the likeness of Shailene’s full cheeks. I would have been careless not to mention the delicate touch of her fingers on the material she so often sewed with Momma in the glorious light of the front window. How her giggle pulled a shadow of a smile from our daddy when I said something terrible under my breath.

Shailene and I spent our nights counting stars, wishing on the ones we thought went most overlooked. And when the world flipped inside out, it stole Shailene and all the stars, leaving me in a frightful darkness. I became a different person without a moon for balance.

I became a different person when the truth found me.

TIN MOON is a compelling tale in the footsteps of Fannie Flag, Norman Maclean, Ellen Airgood, and Billie Letts.