Through varying perspectives, "King's Mountain" is an elegant saga of the Carolina Overmountain Men - the militia organized by John Sevier (who would later become the first governor of Tennessee) - and their victory in 1780 against the Tories in a battle that Thomas Jefferson later called, 'the turning point of the American Revolution.'

"From New York Times bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb comes a finely wrought novel set in nineteenth-century West Virginia, based on the true story of one of the strangest murder trials in American history--the case of the Greenbrier Ghost. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930 Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P. D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Fresh out of medical school, Dr....