Return of the Melungeon Witch

By BV Lawson

The second intallment in the Melungeon Witch short-story series set between the two World Wars in the Appalachians near Sneedville, Tennessee.

Melungeon healer Cephea Collins finds herself falling for Sheriff Daniel Praeger, but those feelings are put to the test when he asks her help on a case involving the murder of his ex-girlfriend's brother. As the ex makes it clear she wants to rekindle her relationship with Daniel, Cephea learns that love can be as deadly as any of the poultices and poisons she uses in her craft.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BV Lawson
• Release date: May 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311426017

BV Lawson

Past career hats BV Lawson tried on include maid, super-speedy typist, classical musician, radio announcer, being in TV commercials (for all of one day), research assistant, TV features writer and working for the Discovery Channel. Now a full-time freelance writer, she's penned articles for various publications and won awards for her many published stories and poems.Thanks to the influence of library genes handed down from her mother, she created the blog In Reference to Murder which contains over 3,000 links for mystery readers and writers. She's working on a series of crime fiction novels set in various locations in and around the mid-Atlantic, and when time permits, BV and her husband enjoy flying over Northern Virginia and the Chesapeake in a little putt-putt plane. Visit BV via her web site, bvlawson.com. No ticket required

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RETURN OF THE MELUNGEON WITCH

Cephea Collins & Sheriff Daniel Praeger Short Story #2

BV Lawson

RETURN OF THE MELUNGEON WITCH

Sheriff Daniel Praeger and Cephea Collins Short Story #2

By BV Lawson

Copyright 2015 BV Lawson

The Return of the Melungeon Witch is a work of fiction. All of the names, characters, places, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Return of the Melungeon Witch

Cephea Collins stooped over the ceramic pot of foxglove, picking off the cobwebs she could use for dressing people’s wounds. The leaves of the plant she’d harvest later, adding them to the basket of herbs to be tied into bundles and dried. Humming to herself, she didn’t know she wasn’t alone any more until she heard the squeak from the front step.

You didn’t tell me you was coming, Daniel. She smiled up at the Sheriff, who looked sharp in his brown uniform. Was it only a month ago she’d been the one to sneak up on him as he first paid her cabin a visit, trying to solve a murder?

I’ve been meaning to drop by, to check up on you. He looked around. Way up here on the mountain, it seems so quiet, so lonely.

She followed