John Corns: 6 books

Brendan Matthews comes to the Cass lumber town of 1919 searching for something shrouded in his tortured memories of war. Against the backdrop of the taking of the Red Spruce timber and the churning of the Shay engines on Cass Mountain, he becomes both the hunter and the hunted, pursued by the imposing...

Blue Spring, last of the Senedo Indian tribe, and Dylan Jones, the Wolf Killer, are caught in the struggle between European conquerors and Native Americans in the land of Eighteenth Century Virginia. A massacre brings these two people of different worlds together, and they vow to build a life that...

The town of Charleston lay across the river, on the north bank of the Kanawha, to the east of the bridge site and the Elk. It was not much of a town, at least not compared with Staunton or Winchester, but Charleston was a much newer town. He had never lived here; he had no reason even to be here until...

Thirteen-year-old John C. McCoy slips into the cold water of the Tug Fork River and swims through the darkness to the West Virginia shore and his future. It is 1909, and in a dozen years, he and his wife, Hiley, and two daughters struggle to survive, and the couple joins the fight for food, shelter,...

It is 1865 when Morgan Lewis heads to St. Louis for what he hopes is a new beginning. Now alone and nearly penniless after losing everything in the Civil War, Morgan strikes up a friendship with Corrick McCale who helps him secure work. But it is not long before destiny leads the pair to join the...

Three hundred and fifty-one men were executed by British Army firing squads between September 1914 and November 1920. By far the greatest number, 266 were shot for desertion in the face of the enemy. The executions continue to haunt the history of the war, with talk today of shell shock and posthumous...