Welcome to Odessa Blaine
If you enjoy Southern flavored Gothics, Fairytales, or Horrors steeped in Appalachian culture and folklore, I’m glad you found me.
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COMING SOON
Where the Roots Tangle
A Novel by Odessa Blaine
Published by Mercer University Press
Edwina’s shaky world is rocked by the murder of a childhood friend on a sweltering north Georgia day in 1929. War erupts between the fed-up poor folks of Shine Town and Edy’s in-laws, the old money Jacksons of Canes Crossin. No matter what they do, Edwina and her sister are trapped in the middle of it.
A walk in the woods to find answers only brings Edy more confusion when she finds the last remnants of the ancient Moon-Eyed People. They give her an out, but she can’t just leave Josephine or her nephew behind.
Tripping over prejudice and self doubt, can Edy get out of her own way long enough to save her sister from her Mother’s misplaced good intentions before her in-laws silence her forever?
Get tangled up in hardscrabble Southern living, small town politics, blood feuds, nearly forgotten folkways, family legacy, and the mythology of Appalachia.
