Son of a Preacher Man

Written by Karen M Cox

Narrated by Blake Lockheart

1959. The long, hot summer bakes the sleepy, Southern town of Orchard Hill. Billy Ray Davenport, an aspiring physician and only son of an indomitable traveling minister, is a young man with a plan that starts with working in a small-town doctor’s office before he begins medical school in the fall. Handsome, principled, and keenly observant, he will lodge with the Millers, the local doctor’s family. But he never bargained for Lizzie Quinlan—a complex, kindred spirit who is beautiful and compassionate, yet scorned by the townsfolk. With her quirky wisdom and a spine of steel hidden beneath an effortless sensuality, Lizzie is about to change Billy Ray’s life—and his heart—forever. 

Winner of the 2019 Kentucky Indie Author Project for adult fiction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Adalia Street Press
• Release date: Sep 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781667053929

Karen M Cox

Karen M Cox is an award-winning author of novels accented with romance and history, including 1932, Find Wonder in All Things, Undeceived, and I Could Write a Book. Her ebook novella, The Journey Home, is a companion piece to 1932.  She also contributed a short story, “Northanger Revisited 2015”, to the anthology, Sun-Kissed: Effusions of Summer, a story titled, “I, Darcy” to The Darcy Monologues, and a short story, “An Honest Man”, in Dangerous to Know: Jane Austen’s Rakes and Gentleman Rogues. Karen was born in Everett WA, which was the result of coming into the world as the daughter of a United States Air Force Officer. She had a nomadic childhood, with stints in North Dakota, Tennessee and New York State before finally settling in her family’s home state of Kentucky at the age of eleven. She lives in a quiet little town with her husband, where she works as a pediatric speech pathologist, encourages her children, and spoils her granddaughter.