Free (nook/Kindle/ePub) Liar's Winter [Xtian 1890s Appalachian Literary Drama Novel]

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Liar's Winter by Cindy K. Sproles is an apparently standalone novel in her Appalachian sequence of loosely-connected historical literary fiction drama taking place in and around the eponymous mountain range in East Tennessee during the 19th century, this one examining themes of prejudice and choice when a girl stolen as an infant, with a birthmark which leads her kidnapping adoptive family to mistreat her as the devil's child, has a chance to uncover the secrets of her true past even as her abusive “kin” are determined hunt her down, free for a limited time courtesy of Christian publisher Kregel.

Currently free, probably just for one day @ B&N & Amazon & Google Play (both available to Canadians).

If it turns you you like this one and would like to read more, we've previously received another, presumably unconnected, novel in the same sequence: Mercy's Rain

Description
Lochiel Ogle was born with a red-wine birthmark--and it put her life in jeopardy from the moment she entered the world. Mountain folks called it "the mark of the devil," and for all the evil that has plagued her nineteen-year existence, Lochiel is ready to believe that is true. And the evil surely took control of the mind of the boy who stole her as an infant, bringing her home for his mother to raise.

Abused and abandoned by the only people she knows as family, Lochiel is rescued by a peddler and given the first glimpse of love she has ever known. The truth of her past is gradually revealed as is the fact that she is still hunted by a brother driven to see her dead. Unsure if there's anyone she can truly trust, Lochiel is faced with a series of choices: Will she continue to run for escape or will she face her past and accept the heartbreaking secrets it reveals? Which will truly free her?

Set in the wild and beautiful Appalachian Mountains of nineteenth-century East Tennessee, Liar's Winter is an unflinching yet inspirational exploration of prejudice and choice.