Wanda Luttrell: 9 books

Sarah mounted Gracie and rode along the creek bank behind Uncle Ethan until the waters grew shallow enough to travel up the creek bed. Her heart quickened as she recognized the bend ahead. She urged Gracie up the bank, her thoughts going back to that first day they had seen the meadow beyond it, back...

“I am losing my mind!” Amanda Farris whispered. But not even insanity could explain how she had dreamed, or imagined, three children playing in the creek whose names she later discovered on a gravestone in a nearby country churchyard. Stranger still, they were the children of the people who had...

Later, Jan Marsh wondered if they would have bought the old Garland mansion if they hadn't been so desperate. But how could they have known? It didn't seem eerie or threatening the day they decided to buy it. It seemed simply a big, old, decaying leftover from some other age, a wonderful...

One of ten children of the head cook at Riceland Plantation, eleven-year-old Hannah is sold as a slave to a kind Georgia family to help care for their expected baby. But when the mother and child die in childbirth, Hannah is sold again, this time to cruel tavern owners who beat her often. She would...

Back in Williamsburg to continue her education, Sarah Moore discovers there is much more to learn in Virginia’s capital city than reading, writing, arithmetic, and the social graces taught by their mousy new tutor. For instance, why are there lights that come and go in the little brown house...

Sarah took her cloak from its wooden peg at the back of the schoolroom and threw it around her. She knew the sound she had heard was not the wind and it was not her imagination. The children had heard it, too. Someone was out there calling for help. She unbarred the door, and the wind snatched...

Ma’s scream went straight to Sarah’s heart. She ran to a hole in the hollow tree beside her brother Luke and saw Ma come running out of the cabin door behind two Indians who were scattering feathers all over the yard from the feather quilts. Another Indian jumped out the door right behind Ma. Ma’s...

Sarah was uncomfortable with the idea of eavesdropping on Aunt Charity’s and Uncle Ethan’s private conversation, but she was anxious to hear what her uncle had to say about their tutor, Gabrielle Gordon. “…spends most of her evenings in Christiana Campbell’s Tavern listening to the...

In No Holly, No Ivy with her children grown and scattered for the first time since her husband’s death four years ago, Loraine is preparing to spend her first Christmas alone. Trying desperately to convince herself that she is happy with the situation—no baking, no shopping, no wrapping, no staying...