The Tattle Tellers' Tales Told

Meet Naomi DeVane Calloway: soap-maker, mother of five, and mistress of Calloway's Gap, high in the North Carolina Blue Ridge. When her husband and firstborn march off to Chickamauga and Union cavalry seize her only mare, Naomi walks straight into an enemy camp to take it back—matching wits, scripture, and mountain grit against the vain Colonel Dan Dear. Framing her Civil War saga is a wry present-day tale of Tex, a red-headed Texan who inherits a mountain and, with an unlikely love, builds a private kingdom—until the FBI comes knocking. Rich in Appalachian dialect, humor, and heartbreak, The Tattle Tellers' Tales Told opens John Sowder's seven-book saga, Just Tell Them I Sent You: a story of truth-telling, survival, and the price of holding your ground.

John Sowder is the author of Just Tell Them I Sent You, a seven-novel Appalachian septet of which The Tattle Tellers' Tales Told is Book One.