Ghost on Black Mountain

Part ghost story, part powerful sweeping epic, Ghost on Black Mountain is a powerful debut which launches a bright new voice in Southern fiction. Meet the women of Black Mountain and the one man that ties them all together... Nellie Pritchard: I married Hobbs Pritchard without noticing he was a spell conjured into a mana walking, talking, ghost story. He took me up Black Mountain and it was there I learned sometimes good and bad get mixed together so well a person can't tell the difference until it's too late. Rose Gardner: I fell deeply in love with Hobbs as if some hoodoo was put on me. Then Miss Nellie came into our lives and changed everything. Josie Clay: Hobbs Pritchard was like a spoiled potato at the bottom of the barrel. But my daughter Nellie didn't believe me. Something stunk to high heavens, something rotten. Eventually I'd find out what it was... Shelly Parker : I got me this giftrestless souls line up to get my notice no matter what I'm doing. Daddy warned me not to have nothing to do with the Pritchards. Some things in life just can't be avoided and getting mixed up with Nellie was one of them. Mama told me the same bedtime story each night. She told it with such detail I was sure Hobbs and Nellie were real. But they were just characters in a tale spun to keep me in line. They were my moral compass. Or so I believed... Haunted and healed by ghosts of the past in surprising and unexpected ways, the women of Black Mountain experience their amazing journeys at the hands of talented story weaver Ann Hite.

Ann Hite’s debut novel, Ghost on Black Mountain, not only became a Townsend Prize Finalist but won Georgia Author of the Year in 2012. Her personal essays and short stories have been published in numerous national anthologies. The Storycatcher is her second Black Mountain novel. Ann is an admitted book junkie with a library of over a thousand books. She lives in Smyrna, Georgia, with her husband and daughter, where she allows her Appalachian characters to dictate their stories.