Theodora is the matriarch of a family that has grown apart. While she's finally managed to get them all together in South Carolina to celebrate Christmas, this is shaping up to be nothing like the extravagant, homey holidays of her childhood. All they do is argue. What happened to the days when Christmas meant tables groaning with home-cooked goodies, over-the-top decorations, and long chats in front of the fire with Pearl, her grandmother's beloved...

This guide to Georgia and the Carolinas provides the best scenic drives in each state and looks at the regions popular with visitors. It also includes a section on the area's music traditions, leisure pursuits and accommodation.

As a fourteen-year-old black boy living in the 1940s South Carolina, Linus Bragg should know better than to follow two white girls on bicycles. But something about Sue Ellen and Cindy Lou compels him. Whatever the reason, he follows the girls into the woods. It's the worst mistake he ever makes. When he comes into the clearing, both girls are dead and young Linus is the natural suspect.

This is the fourth book in a time-travel series about a 1960s woman and an 18th century Scottish rebel. Cast ashore in the New World, the Frasers intend to join the exiled Highlanders in North Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution.

When Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is invited by Doreen Briggs, one of Charleston's most prominent hostesses, to a 'Rat Tea', she is understandably intrigued. As servers dressed in rodent costumes and wearing white gloves offer elegant finger sandwiches and fine teas, Theo learns these parties date back to early 20th-century Charleston to promote better public health. But this party goes from odd to chaotic when a fire starts at one of...

Indigo Tea Shop owner, Theodosia Browning, is lured into attending the Heritage Society's 'Pirates and Plunder' soiree. But it's an antique diamond skull ring that gets plundered by someone who murders a history intern in the process.

The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log in which all cases are entered. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta moves to South Carolina and opens a private forensic pathology practice. A string of brutal killings shatters her dreams of a quiet life.

When Jack Armstrong is told he has a terminal illness and that he has weeks to live, his first concern is for his beloved wife, Lizzie, and children, baby Jackie, Cory and rebellious teenager Mikki. On Christmas Eve, as Jack prepares to say goodbye to his family, tragedy strikes. Lizzie is killed in a car accident.