Julia K Childs: 2 books

Emma is just 13 years old in 1933 when she gives birth to her father’s baby. Unable to care for the child, she abandons tiny Maddie and returns to her isolated home on a North Carolina mountain, where she must fend off her father’s drunken advances while trying to care for their small homestead....

A troubled woman drowns herself in the Savannah River behind River Oaks, her husband’s estate. On the anniversary of the tragedy, her young daughter falls down the mansion’s stairs and claims her dead mother pushed her, the beginning of multiple attempts by the mother to kill the young girl. Years...