The Reckoning of Mill Creek: A Novel

Ridley, Tennessee, 1932. Three women who have never been invited to anything that matters decide to take down the most powerful man in the county — and discover that the smallest acts of defiance can change everything.

June Holloway is twelve years old when she discovers forty-three letters in the attic — letters her mother wrote to her aunt, begging for help, each one ignored. Orphaned and invisible, June begins planning a reckoning that will take years to unfold.

Martha Kirkwood has been a widow for six years, which in Ridley means she's been a ghost for six years. But in her dead husband's study, among the maritime law books he never read, she finds the evidence that could bring down a corrupt mill owner — if she can find someone brave enough to use it.

Adelaide Vance runs the Ridley Hotel, the only establishment in town with a basement bar and a woman in charge. She's been called scandalous, dangerous, and worse — and she's earned every word. When a twelve-year-old girl and a grieving widow walk into her hotel with an impossible plan, Adelaide sees something she hasn't seen in years: a fight worth joining.

Together, through stolen photographs, anonymous letters circulated through a small town, and one courageous sermon preached from a pulpit that had been silent for too long, these three unlikely allies will dismantle a corrupt empire — and discover that calamity can be the spark of new beginnings.

Spanning fifty years from the depths of the Depression to the aftermath of World War II, THE RECKONING OF MILL CREEK is an epic testament to underestimated women who know that justice isn't given — it's taken. For readers of Kathryn Stockett, Barbara Kingsolver, and the unbreakable bonds of found family.