West Virginia High

by Valerie Banfield, Sue Copeland

HE KNOWS IT’S A CRUTCH . . .BUT IT SATISFIES HIS NEEDS. July 1968, South Vietnam. Greg Merrick’s stint in the jungles of Vietnam makes the prospect of working in the Logan coalfields a heap more appealing than it did before he enlisted. He’s learned to cope with fatigue, violence, and cruelty, but fears his survival methods will stalk him as long as the memories linger. Forever changed, he returns to an unrecognizable place where transplanted hippies and war-weary folks went on with life without him. SHE KNOWS IT’S ILLEGAL . . .BUT IT MAY BE AN ANSWER TO PRAYER. March 2010, Logan, West Virginia. Gina White rides a pretty high, self-righteous horse when it comes to people who abuse drugs. She’s lost count of those who’ve buried loved ones or watched them destroy their lives. The use of substances for medicinal purposes sounds like unfounded hogwash to her—until the benefactor is someone she loves more than life. And so, she weighs the risk.

343 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 13, 2019

About the author

Valerie Banfield is a talespinner to the lost, the loved, and the found. She is the author of eighteen novels, including While I Count the Stars, winner of the Cascade Award. She loves to take little known tidbits from eras gone by and use them as the backdrop for imperfect but endearing characters who dangle between loss and hope as they wend their way through troubled times and circumstances. When she’s not writing, reading, or rummaging through newspaper archives, she’s probably walking the dog, weaving a basket, counting the stars, or savoring the majesty of an Indiana sunrise.