SUMMER IN MOSSY CREEK by Various Authors
SUMMER IN MOSSY CREEK is the third in a series of novels which focuses on the lives of the good folk who live in the fictional town of Mossy Creek, Georgia. The writers are Deborah Smith, Sandra Chastain, Debra Dixon, Martha Shields, Anne Bishop, Kim Brock, Patti Henry, Judith Keim, Bo Sebastian, Shelly Morris, Susan Goggins and Carolyn McSparren.
These talented writers create stories which are unique and separate, but they also write with one voice which is that of brotherly love and human compassion. You won't find offensive behavior treated as the norm here. Bizarre behavior yes, but offensive behavior no.
This particular group of stories seem to have the theme of friendship. You see it most positively in two of the best stories in the bunch, "Amos and the Dog" and "Sadie and Etta." These are the two that caused me to choke up a bit while reading them.
But even if these two are my favorites, it doesn't imply that the others are without charm. They all reach inside your heart and find that certain place where far away days reside. Then they lull you into their rhythm and take you back to a time when the dirt beneath your feet was hot and the air through the open windows was cool.
If you have read the first two books then you know that Mossy Creek and the town of Bigelow are eye to eye competitors. And that feud/race continues in this book. Plus we learn more of just why Mossy Creek is the absolute best place to live.
If you are from the South, living in the South, know someone living in the South, or have ever wanted to live in the South; then you owe it to yourself to visit the pages of SUMMER IN MOSSY CREEK. It takes you to a land that time has not forgotten, but has embraced. It is a place where all the good things still thrive and all the bad things move on down the road.
I don't usually subscribe to the notion that it "takes a village to raise a child," but when the village is Mossy Creek, well I say more power to it. And any child raised here has surely been blessed by God.
In the South the drink of choice is iced sweet tea with extra lemons. I raise my glass to the writers of SUMMER IN MOSSY CREEK. They have done themselves proud one more time.
SUMMER IN MOSSY CREEK is published by Belle Books. It contains 320 pages and sells for $14.95.