Eve's Mountain A Novel of Passion & Mystery in the Blue Ridge

From SouthLore Press ("fiction that satisfies"), EVE'S MOUNTAIN: A NOVEL OF PASSION & MYSTERY IN THE BLUE RIDGE, is a mainstream novel of new urban passions & an old mountain mystery. Finalist in national competition for the 1999 Benjamin Franklin Award in fiction. Library Journal: "belongs in all fiction collections." Story setting: a secluded summer hamlet, an "Appalachian Brigadoon," in contemporary Blue Ridge where an unsolved mystery seems to protect the place from the continuing change going on in these once-remote southern highlands. This character-driven story looks into lives of an ensemble cast of outsiders drawn here seeking a hideaway, each for hidden reasons, unaware the hovering mystery is about to unfold involving them all. The novel depicts a region's mystique & lure, yet the underlying theme is universal: the urge to escape one's problems by going to a different place. The desire reflects the well-documented trend of relocation by stressed-out urbanites seeking a less artificial life in areas once considered rural or remote. Library Journal: "This well crafted novel belongs in every fiction collection." St. Petersburg Times: Coe has rendered these mountains real even for readers who have never been east of the Rockies" Midwest Reviews: "..a master storyteller." Appalachian Heritage Journal: "Informs as well as delights." Website: www.mariancoe.com.Coe, Marian is the author of 'Eve's Mountain A Novel of Passion & Mystery in the Blue Ridge', published 2002 under ISBN 9780963334176 and ISBN 0963334174.