The Magnolia Conspiracy
by Jeane Harris

The Magnolia Conspiracy is a passionate tale of rape, revenge and redemption, a story of unforgettable emotional range and depth.  It charts the lives of four women who struggle with their pasts; women who stand united, held by a deep and abiding love for one another.

Professor Caroline Jordan lives with the memory of a brutal rape.  Only when her attacker, Gerald Steckman, is convicted of the crime and sentenced to prison is Caroline able to rebuild her shattered life.  With her partner, artist Jane Sellers, she settles in Denver and attempts to put the terror of her rape behind her.  But when her friends’s young daughter, Evie, is found brutalized, she is drawn back into the web of terror once more.  When she discovers that it is Steckman who has raped her Evie, Caroline is stunned and then, outraged.  As Steckman stalks and attacks women in the Capitol Hill area of Denver where she lives, Caroline, her lover Jane and their two friends, Matty and Brooke, plot revenge.  The conspiracy is born in The Steel Magnolia, a bar frequented by the four women.  Frustrated by the lack of progress by the police, the women enlist the aid of Denver’s gay community to bring Steckman to justice .

But the justice the women plan for Steckman is not society’s justice . . . is is a justice born of Caroline’s need to exorcise the fear that has haunted her for years.

About the Author: Jeane Harris, a well known and respected award winning scholar, has previously published works in the general fiction category.  This book was previously published as “The Black Iris” (1992).  Her previous publisher, Naiad Press, capitalized on the lesbian undertones of the work as Ms. Harris herself is a lesbian.  With this approach they removed an extensive amount of material.  For the first time the whole manuscript, with the new title “The Magnolia Conspiracy,” will be made available to the public.

The Magnolia Conspiracy by Jeane Harris
CG 1010, ISBN 1-931275-37-8
Softcover; 180 pages, $12.00

Delia Ironfoot
by Jeane Harris

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About the Author: Jeane Harris, a well known and respected award winning scholar, has previously published works in the general fiction category.  This book was previously published as “The Black Iris” (1992).  Her previous publisher, Naiad Press, capitalized on the lesbian undertones of the work as Ms. Harris herself is a lesbian.  With this approach they removed an extensive amount of material.  For the first time the whole manuscript, with the new title “The Magnolia Conspiracy,” will be made available to the public.

Delia Ironfoot by Jeane Harris
CG 1010, ISBN 1-562800-14-0
Softcover; 180 pages, $12.00

One Year in Jeopardy
by William Kenower

One Year in Jeopardy brings all the passions of the post-civil war, rural Missourian to life. In a world of small land owners and itinerant farmers where wooden churches, old barns and quiet fields are still the order of the day, community is everything. Here, Dell Becker’s world is thrown upside down after a brutal assault followed by a hasty marriage to the older Will Crane that does little to assuage the pain. When Will’s son, Abe, falls in love with her, she finds herself drawn to the strong willed man. Dell and Abe must both come to grips with life in the Missouri county. As both learn to love, they come to wonder if there is more to life than plowing the earth in Jeopardy, Missouri. It seems as if everyone is trying to leave Oxefield County to begin a new life but the tumults of the Crane’s neighbor’s life of crime and the return of Dell’s attacker, Dan Olsen, threaten to disrupt their lives permanently.

One Year in Jeopardy by William Kenower
TLG 1012, ISBN 1-931275-58-0
Softcover, 6 x 9, 160 pages, $12.00

Queen of Purgatory
by Guy Lancaster

No one in Parkin, Arkansas would have ever predicted it—on the same day that the local museum is hosting a reenactment of Hernando de Soto meeting the Casqui Indians, three young girls in the graveyard across the road encounter someone they later claim is the Virgin Mary.

Now, in the face of berserk media attention and people flooding into town, Tommy Pilot, local Baptist minister, sets himself the task of finding out just what is going on. But soon he uncovers a hidden strand of secrets woven around a World War II P.O.W. camp based in Parkin, a discovery made by his father in the heart of the Nazi empire, and a murder long forgotten by many in town—all of which somehow relate to the message supposedly given to these three girls by the Virgin Mary: “Remember your dead.”

Queen of Purgatory, Guy Lancaster’s debut novel, is a riveting story—part mystery and part meditation—about what is kept hidden and the dire consequences of separating ourselves from the past.

Queen of Purgatory by Guy Lancaster
TLG 1013, ISBN 1-931275-81-5
Softcover; 200 pages (est), $13.95 (est)