A Day in Mossy Creek

Mossy Creek #5

by Deborah Smith, Sandra Chastain, Virginia Ellis

Maybe it's the post-New Year's boredom. Maybe it's the cold, frisky air. Whatever the cause, the citizens of Mossy Creek seem determined to get into trouble on a clear winter day in mid-January. Police Chief Amos Royden and his loyal officers, Mutt and Sandy, can barely keep up with the calls. Hank and Casey Blackshear's great aunt Irene, 93, leads a protest march of angry old folks - on their electric scooters. Louise and Charlie Sawyer battle renovation pitfalls (literally) in their cranky house. Pearl Quinlan fights her sister, Spiva, over a plate of brownies. Patty Campbell performs a makeover on Orville Gene Simpson's front yard, against Orville's will. All that and more! Last, but not least, Amos and Ida finally stop fighting their secret attraction, but then the trouble really begins!

Genres: Fiction, Southern, Anthologies

304 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2006

About the author

aka Jackie Leigh
aka Della Stone
aka Leigh Bridger

Bestselling Author
Co-founder, co-publisher
Vice-president, Editor in Chief
BelleBooks, Memphis, TN

Deborah Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of A Place to Call Home, and the No. 1 Kindle Bestseller The Crossroads Cafe, A Gentle Rain and other acclaimed romantic novels portraying life and love in the modern Appalachian South. A native Georgian, Deborah is a former newspaper editor who turned to novel-writing with great success.

With more than 35 romance, women's fiction and fantasy novels to her credit, Deborah's books have sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Among her honors is a Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times Magazine and a nomination for the prestigious Townsend Literary Award. In 2003 Disney optioned Sweet Hush for film. In 2008 A Gentle Rain was a finalist in Romance Writers of America's RITA awards.

For the past fifteen years Deborah has partnered with Debra Dixon to run BelleBooks, a small press originally known for southern fiction, including the Mossy Creek Hometown Series and the Sweet Tea story collections. As editor, she has worked on projects as diverse as the nonfiction Bra Talk book by three-time Oprah Winfrey guest Susan Nethero, and the In My Dreams novella by New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen.

In 2008 BelleBooks launched Bell Bridge Books, an imprint with a focus on fantasy novels and now expanded to include multi-genre fiction--mystery, suspense, thrillers, women's fiction, nonfiction and other. In 2013 BelleBooks acquired the late Linda Kichline's paranormal romance press, ImaJinn Books, and hired legendary editor Brenda Chin, formerly of Harlequin Books, as editorial director. Chin will expand the imprint to cover a diverse mix of all romance types.

Deborah's newest books are the Crossroads Cafe novellas: THE BISCUIT WITCH, THE PICKLE QUEEN, THE YARN SPINNER, and THE KITCHEN CHARMER (2014). She released a mini-short story, SAVING JONQUILS, in March 2014. A sexy romantic novella, A HARD MAN TO FIND, is scheduled for later in the month.

Reviews

[Sherry Bledsoe · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm so addicted

I've been Bing reading this series all week. I totally invested in the characters and can barely wait to get started on Book 6. This is a short review from a Southern "Lady" on a subject dear to her heart - Small Southern towns but I gave much longer reviews on 1-4 books and I'm simply to eager to start book 5 to tell you what she already been apparent - I love the books and expect to continue bing reading tell I get to the last one! Can you give a better recommendation than that? Excuse any typo's etc as I didn't proof this before hitting SUBMIT this time

[Margaret Bender · Rating 5 out of 5]

Family and town folk

The town is made up of so many different people. I liked.all the love and interaction with each other. The care and helpfulness. This is the first book in the series that I have read. I liked it very much. Thank you for a good read.

[Paula · Rating 4 out of 5]

I happen to pick the first one up at the library and now am on book 5.( There's at least 7) Each book is a series of short stories based on the lives of the residents of Mossy Creek, Georgia. Mossy Creek welcome signs says "Ain't goin nowhere and don't want to" Great easy reads but as the character continue throughout the series start with book #1 Mossy Creek

[Diane · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am reading this on Kindle, don't know what page. I have really enjoyed all of these books, and plan to read the rest in the series. Quaint, light reading about a small town in Georgia with all of the "southern" traditions and blessings/perils of small town life.

[Rose]

I like the book. Hell, I like the series! I'd love to own them simply so I could read them over again. The gaps in getting them ILL is horrendous.

I wouldn't mind living in a town like Mossy Creek. Fun happenings, fun neighbors, cute fellers . . . all the things I daydream about. *chuckles*