Poplar Mountain by Dellani Oakes Part 4

Lucius helped Dollie set up for the party, and asked her to be his date. He was also invited to have dinner with them, before the party begins.

The dining hall was bursting at the seams with people when they walked down. Willem met Patty at the door and the four of them walked in together. Music played on the record player. One of the men had rigged it so that it was piped through speakers. This would do for a time, but the play party games music would be played by a group of local men and one woman who often performed together.

Somehow, Lucius' cousin Jed had been convinced to introduce the tunes and start the records. He did an admirable job of it. A new song started just as they walked in the door. Jed smiled, giving them a thumb's up. The opening strains of Moonlight Serenade began.

"Miss Dollie, would you honor me with this dance?" Lucius asked.

"I'd be delighted," she replied as he led her onto the dance floor.

Dollie hadn't expected Lucius to be able to manage the modern dances, but he did very well. Smiling and laughing, they spun around the dance floor with Willem and Patty nearby.

Jed followed the slow dance with another popular song by Louis Prima, Sing, Sing, Sing (with a Swing). Lucius surprised her further by swinging her into a rollicking dance. Many of the others hung back, unsure of the steps. The enthusiasm of Lucius and Dollie was contagious, and soon all of them were dancing. Gasping and laughing, the couples had to rest afterward. They gravitated toward the refreshment table where the younger girls served cookies and punch. Lucius got cups of punch for himself and Dollie.

"It's hot in here. Reckon you'd like to step out for a breath of air before the games start."

"Reckon I would," she replied.

Willem and Patty followed them, keeping their distance. Dollie thought it was so they could keep and eye on them, but her sister and Lucius' brother were too wrapped up in each other to notice.

"Will put the last nail in the house today," Lucius said. "Outside's finished. Got to do the inside, but that won't take long, with me and the boys helping."

"That's wonderful!"

"Reckon he's gonna make it official any day," the young man said, raising an eyebrow in the direction of their siblings.

"I think he just did," Dollie added, watching the other two kiss.

"Yee haw," Lucius said quietly. "Miss Dollie...."

"Just Dollie, please. No need to be so formal."

"Dollie.... I'm not a big talker...."

"I know...."

"But I like talkin' to you mighty fine. I think you're about the prettiest girl I ever met. If you'd consider.... That's if you'd...."

A loud screeching wail emanated from inside the dining hall. All the men and older boys leaped to attention. Those sitting down, stood while the others rushed to the doors. Lucius jumped back from Dollie like he'd been stung. Loud laughter echoed from inside as music started to play. Jed laughed louder than anyone, as he tried to apologize.

"Sorry, folks. Not a fire siren, it's Rhapsody in Blue!" Doubled over, he laughed until his sides ached.

The moment between Lucius and Dollie was lost. Both of them hoped somehow they could find it once more. There were questions that needed to be asked and answered. It would have to keep. At least Dollie knew he was interested, that much was obvious.

More determined than ever to get his kiss, Lucius led her back inside as the small band took their places and the games and country dances began.

They opened, as always, with Skip to my Lou and Goin' to Boston. After a few of these, they played Jamaica, Bung Your Eye and Childgrove.

Suddenly, the doors burst open and there stood Big Earl Henry. Obviously drunk, he carried a bottle in one hand. His grubby overalls hung off his massive frame in muddy creases. He looked as if he'd slept with the pigs—and smelled like it too. The people nearest him recoiled in fear and disgust.

"I wanna see my boy!" he bellowed.

Willem took a step forward, but his father shoved him away. "Not you, you pansy! Where's Lucius?"

"Here, Pa," Lucius said, stepping up bravely to confront his father. "Don't you think you owe these folks an apology?"

"Fer what? Getting what's mine?" He put his arm around Lucius' shoulders, dragging him toward the door.

Willem rushed to get between the door and his father, hands out. "That's far enough, Pa. You let Luke go. You got no quarrel with him."

"He's my son!" Earl yelled.

"You've got two sons here, Pa," Will began.

"No son of mine would leave home and work in town. My son works the land. He's gonna take on the farm, after I'm gone."

"Pa, you're embarrassing us," Will said quietly.

"So? You think it don't embarrass me to see you flaunt all your money around town? And you spend it on that floozy from the city! Her, right there!" He pointed at Patty. Leaving Lucius, he took a couple staggering steps toward her.

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Losing You -Book 2 by Amanda Mackey

Dakota Livingston’s whole world has been turned upside down…

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Cross Ties by Carolyn Bowen

Leah was a rebel. She chose to live her life outside the constraints of 19th century English society. She rebuked any parental control and choose to decide her own fate. From England to the Caribbean and then frontier America, she was loved by family and friends yet still had enemies. Sailing the seas with pirates lurking about helped chisel her character as she created a life of her own near the sea.

Explore the scenic countries with Leah and learn of the native cultures and taste their delicacies. As a mixed race female, she placed prejudices under her feet and learned to recognize and accept love even if it was against the law. 

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Undiscovered by Dellani Oakes

Someone wants Kent Griswald dead. Could it be his browbeaten younger brother? His haughty personal assistant or the disgruntled director of his next movie? Whoever it is, misses the first time, shooting someone else instead. It's up to Detective Walter Scott to uncover the truth before it's too late. 

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From a three-week voyage of more than 7000 miles from New Orleans to Buenos Aires in 1964 through an eight-day, 3258-mile round-trip drive between Evanston, Illinois and Clovis, New Mexico in 2017, whether in their prime or in their nineties, the Bedfords have packed a lot into their life's journey. Follow their inspiring story of faith and service, set in fascinating times and places in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. 

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Soulless and exiled from Heaven the Dark Knights have not abandoned their duty. For millennia they’ve battled demons, protecting human kind from Lucifer’s servants. Less than a year ago hundreds of demons escaped Hell world-wide, stretching the Knights resources to their limits. Now they face the greatest challenge of all—discovering love.

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Poplar Mountain by Dellani Oakes Part 3

Lucius manages to snag a few boys to help Dollie set up. His cousin, Jed, teases him about liking Dollie.

Sixteen year old Jed saw deep into his soul. Lucius couldn't hide from him how he felt about Dollie. Blushing, he partially turned away.

"Don't have to say a word, cuz. Reckon I know that look. Didn't Jake look that way over Rachel Gibbons 'fore he popped the question?"

"Ain't poppin' nothin'," Lucius replied sullenly. "No way Dollie'd take a man like me serious."

"What's wrong with a man like you?" Jed could see the time to tease was over. "You're a hard worker, ain't ye? You've got a spot of land to build on...."

"I ain't been to college. I'm not a proper gent. I'm a poor farm boy from up the holler."

"You're more a gent than most citified men we ever met," Jed replied stolidly, punching his cousin good naturedly. "What you lack is confidence. You look at Miss Dollie sometime, when she thinks you ain't, you'll see what I mean." Raising an eyebrow, he put his index finger beside his nose, giving Lucius a saucy salute.

The boys worked hard and soon the dining hall had been transformed with pictures and colored paper streamers made by the younger children. The party was only for the teenagers, an end of the school year celebration before graduation. Once the decorations were up, the boys raced back to the dorm to finish getting ready.

Dollie and Lucius walked up to the girls' dorm where she and her sister had an apartment. They acted as house mothers for the girls. The smell of fresh bread greeted Lucius as he opened the door for Dollie. Not the cornbread he was used to at home, but the yeasty scent of hearty wheat bread.

"Did you bake that just for me, Miss Dollie?"

"I'm afraid that's Patty's doing," she replied. "I'm set to poison you with barley soup."

"If I'm about to die, I'd as soon it was with a slice of Miss Patty's good bread and your hearty soup in my belly. You two ladies are such fine cooks, I can't believe no man back home snapped you up."

"I'm afraid the men back home aren't as easy to please," Dollie said, her cheeks flushing prettily. "Their standards for a wife are quite different."

Lucius snorted. "What more does a man need than a pretty girl who can cook? Me, I want a help mate, got some smarts to her, pretty enough to please me, and can make a meal sticks to my ribs." He gazed pointedly at Dollie.

Casting her eyes down, she felt a surge of pride. "Most of the boys back home didn't really want a girl with brains and an education."

"Why ever not? Sometimes, a man needs a good conversation."

"They were more interested in kissing than conversation," Dollie's sister Patty came around the corner from the kitchen. "A girl with brains might contradict them, in any case."

"Howdy, Miss Patty." Lucius shook her hand, grinning. "Well sir, there's a lot to be said for kissing. But a sharp disagreement once in awhile, why that makes the kissing that much better." He winked at her.

Patty, who was two years older than Dollie, chuckled. She was a well built woman in her late twenties. With blonde hair, blue eyes and a smart-alec streak, she tended to scare men away. Thus far, the only men not scared off by either sister, were Lucius Henry and his older brother. Lucius had made plain the first day he saw them that he had his sights set on Dollie. Though he enjoyed Patty's wit and good bread, he was far more interested in her younger sister.

Patty might have been upset by it, but Lucius' older brother, Willem, was more to her liking. They'd gone to town once or twice to the moving pictures. They'd also spent a lot of time courting in the old mountain ways. Willem didn't work on his daddy's farm anymore. He had a job in Harlan, Kentucky working as a jeweler. He'd all but proposed to Patty and was waiting until he'd finished the house he was building, before he formally asked her. They had an understanding, which was like an engagement, without the ring. At least that's the way that Patty defined it.

"Wash up," Patty commanded. "Dinner will be ready in a jiffy."

"Thanks, Miss Patty." Lucius went into the small bathroom, closing the door behind him.

Patty dragged her sister into tiny the kitchen. "So, did he ask you?"

Dollie's dark brown eyes sparkled as she nodded. "You said he would, and he did!" she whispered.

Patty grinned, hugging her sister. "That man's got eyes only for you. Told you that a million times."

"Then why doesn't he speak up?" Dollie washed her hands in the kitchen sink.

"Because men like Lucius have to study about things awhile. Not that he's slow witted, cause he's smart as a lick. Just he's got to look at something from all angles. He's deliberate and thoughtful."

"I don't mind that in a man, but I do like some action too."

"Now Willem, he's the opposite. He's impulsive and spontaneous."

"That goes well with your personality, Patty. I'm not much of one for impulsiveness."

"Might give that a try some time," her sister said, winking at her.

"I'll consider it."

They clammed up when Lucius walked back in. He suspected they'd been talking about him. If he was the reason Dollie was smiling so big, he didn't care. He had in his mind that he was going to find a way to steal a kiss or two. It was time he let her know how he felt, and officially started courting her. He loved Dorothea Belloit more than he'd ever thought possible. Being a shy man, he just couldn't find the words to tell her. His mama always said actions spoke louder, so he was determined let his actions do the speaking for him.

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Poplar Mountain by Dellani Oakes Part 2

Dollie has gone up the mountain to fetch Lucius Henry, to help set up the play party set for that evening. He agrees happily.

Lucius and Dollie walked down the well worn path to the school. It wasn't much over a mile and the day was sunny but cool. Lucius sneaked peeks at Dollie as she talked. She was always so bouncy and excitable. Her enthusiasm amused him. The most mundane tasks, like milking a cow or darning a sock, filled her with joy. A city girl, Dollie delighted in all that was rustic. She didn't mind doing things by hand that in the city could be done by machine. She'd learned to weave, sew, knit and make baskets. Her little apartment, that she shared with her sister, was full of her crafts.

"I'm surprised none of the boys would help out," Lucius said by way of distracting himself. If he continued to stare at her, she'd cotton to it. Not only that, he'd likely fall down the mountain if he wasn't careful. He'd far rather look at Dollie than his feet.

"Too busy spiffing themselves up for the party. You'd think it was a cotillion, the way they're carrying on. I declare, they're worse than the girls."

"Well, for folks like us, this is a grand event," he replied quietly.

Dollie glanced at him. Lucius has his hands jammed in his pockets. She touched his arm tenderly.

"I'm sorry, Lucius. I forget...."

"Our little play parties must seem silly in comparison with the pretty parties you've been to back home."

"I didn't really go to the parties back home. Those were for the rich and beautiful. I'm neither."

"You may not be rich, Miss Dollie...." He stopped abruptly before he said something inappropriate. He desperately wanted to tell her she was the most beautiful girl in the world. "—but you're the closest thing to a princess that we got around here." His blush deepened.

Dollie didn't miss the blush or the disquiet. To ease his embarrassment, she giggled at his joke. "Well, the princess tried to command those boys to help and didn't get very far."

"Don't worry. I'll get them hopping," he assured her as they passed behind the clinic. "You head on up to the dining hall. I'll go by the boy's dormitory and see what I can do."

"Thanks, Lucius. You're a prince."

He bowed deeply, sweeping his hand behind him as if pushing back a cape. "Mine is but to serve, Your Highness."

Blushing, Dollie giggled nervously. She liked Lucius more than she wanted to admit. The boys back home had never interested her much, nor had they treated her like a grand lady. Lucius always gave her the feeling that she was the most important person in the world.

Lucius righted himself, stepping closer. "Do you have an escort to the play party tonight, Miss Dollie?" His voice deepened, growing husky.

"I—I don't."

"I'd be proud if you'd consider me your partner for the dancing."

"I'd be delighted, Lucius."

"Thank ye, Miss Dollie. You do me an honor."

"Just Dollie," she whispered, dropping a slight curtsy. Embarrassed at her boldness, she turned and ran the rest of the way to the dining hall.

Lucius watched her until she was a pastel blur. Turning his steps towards the boys' dormitory, he whistled a happy tune. Fond of the mountain tunes of his ancestors, he chose There Was An Old Woman. Soon, he was singing in a clear, ringing tenor, "There was an old woman in our town, in our town did dwell. She loved her husband dearly, but another man twice as well. Sing too-di-um, sing too-di-um, Whack fa-lal-the-day." He reached the end of the song when he got to the door of the boys' dorm.

Snatching up the first four boys he found, those who couldn't outrun him, he drove them like cattle over to the dining hall. They, of course, complained the entire way.

"Luke, you got no call," his younger cousin, Jed, whined.

"Y'all oughta helped Miss Dollie without being told. What would your mothers think, you making a lady work all on her lonesome?"

"She had to ask you," Jed pointed out rudely.

"But I didn't know she needed help, or I'd of been down here all ready."

"That's cause you're sweet on Miss Dollie," Jed teased.

Lucius cuffed his cousin. The teenage boy hopped ahead, teasing and chanting. He danced backward, sticking his tongue out until he fell over a tree root and sprawled on the ground.

"Teach you to keep a civil tongue," Lucius said as he helped him up.

"Shucks, I'm just telling the truth," Jed replied, sulkily.

The other boys filed into the dining hall. Lucius kept Jed back a moment.

"You don't ought to say things like that, Jed. What'd Miss Dollie think if she heard?"

"Well, ain't ya?"

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His Soul to Keep (Dark Knights of Heaven Book 1) by TW Knight

Where fallen angels battle Hell’s demons, find their lost souls, and discover love while hunting for a prophecy that holds the key to either their redemption or their destruction.

At twenty-eight, Cassidy Long is happy with her life. She has a job she loves, a great family, and a future open to possibilities. That all changes after she discovers she is the vessel for the immortal soul of an angel cast out of Heaven, and the only way to break the bond is by her death. Spirited away, Cassidy finds herself in the middle of an eternal war and falling for her angel.

Rail is captivated by Cassidy immediately, but fears it’s only the connection to his soul fueling his interest. He’s vowed to never fall in love, but fate has different plans. The more he fights his growing feelings, the deeper in love he falls. Cassidy not only holds his soul, but his heart. Now, he will fight Heaven and Hell to protect her.

Heaven abandoned them, but they did not abandon their calling. Once they were the Watchers, teachers, and mentors to human kind. Now soulless and exiled from Heaven, forced into an endless war, some will fall while others rise to find their destinies. 

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Poplar Mountain by Dellani Oakes Part 1

Dorothea Belloit, commonly known as Dollie, walked up the grassy path to the log cabin. Holding her hat in hand, she swung her arms freely, enjoying the sun on her dark brown hair. Her light cotton spring dress blew in the stout breeze that whipped around the curve of the mountain. Smiling, she admired the view. From here, the valley spread out below her, the creek wound along looking more like a snail trail than the rapidly moving mountain stream.

"Lo, Miss Dollie!" Rachel Henry called from the front porch of her split log cabin.

"Lo, Rachel! Is Lucius home?"

"He's up the holler, Miss Dollie. Kin I fotch him for ya?"

"Yes, please. I need his help down at the school."

"Sit down, rest a spell. I'll send one the young'uns for him." She stood, calling into the house. "Sally, go git Lucius!"

"Yes, Mama!" A barefoot, girl with sand colored braids darted out of the house and ran up the hill as nimbly as a mountain goat.

The women watched her go. Dollie smiled at her companion. Rachel Henry was a slight built woman with golden blonde hair and dancing green eyes.

"She'll be old enough for school next year, won't she?"

"Day school, m'bee," Rachel replied. "Her daddy and me ain't sure we want her overnight."

"Oh, she'd do fine in day school. And six is a little young for boarding. Besides, with you so close, there's no real need for her to board."

"Reckon Lucius could fotch her most days."

"Of course he could. They hope to get a bus up here soon."

Rachel Henry made a rude noise of disgust. "Them new fangled inventions! Don't trust 'em. Gimme a mule any day."

"Rachel, cars are hardly new fangled. And they're such fun. In fact, I just bought a new Studebaker Champion. I named her Bonnie Blue."

Rachel's eyes widened and she bit her lip. "A real car, Miss Dollie? Why, that'd be a sight for sure!" Used to trucks, she still puzzled over cars a little.

"When you get a chance, come down with Lucius and I'll give you both a ride."

"Not sure Big Earl would like that much."

Big Earl was Rachel's husband. True to his name, he was a large man—brutish and slow witted. Dollie often wondered what had attracted the pretty, vivacious, intelligent Rachel to a man as boring and dull witted as Earl Henry. Love could be blind, but this bordered on insane.

"We don't have to tell him," Dollie replied.

"Oh, shucks, no. Someone'd see us and tell him for sure," Rachel replied, fear obvious in her eyes.

"We'll talk about it another time then," Dollie said, ending the uncomfortable subject.

"Hey-o, Miss Dollie!" a pleasant male voice called.

Dollie looked up, smiling. Sally was back with her older brother, Lucius, in tow. He was a taller version of his mother, lean and sandy haired with eyes as green as mountain hemlock. He brushed his palms on the seat of his dungarees. Grinning, he stepped forward to shake her hand.

Standing, Dollie took his hand with a shy smile and slight blush. Lucius was about her age, in his early twenties, and worked part time at Poplar Mountain Settlement School tending animals and doing odd jobs. Dollie worked in the office as secretary. She and her older sister, Patty, had worked there about a year and a half. Patty did the accounting.

"Sally said you needed me?"

Dollie sighed dramatically. "I got handed the reins to the play party tonight. Last minute, Mrs. Barnes decided she just didn't have time. Anyway, nothing's been done and I can't get the boys to help hang decorations. If you're not busy...."

"I'd be proud to help you, Miss Dollie. Mama, I done my chores. Mind if I go help out?"

"You go on," his mother said, a delighted glitter in her eyes. "I'll save you supper."

"Don't worry about it," Dollie said. "Lucius is invited to dine with Patty and me as payment for helping."

"I'll take a good meal," Lucius said, rubbing his belly. "Man my size is always hungry."

"You're invited to the play party too," Dollie said quickly. "It might be rather late...."

"I'll hunker down in a bunk sommers," Lucius said. "Mama, don't 'spect me home till tomorrow."

"All right. Well, I'd best mind my young'uns," she said. "Miss Dollie, come on back when you can set a spell."

"I'll do that, Rachel. Thanks for letting me borrow Lucius."

Rachel laughed, huffing slightly. "Like I'd be able to stop him." She winked at her son.

He made a face at her behind Dollie's back. It was no secret to his mother that he'd taken a shine to Dorothea Belloit. That the interest was returned hadn't escaped Rachel's discerning eye. She encouraged her son's suit and hoped he'd make a good match with the pretty, dark haired woman.

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Cross Stepping Your Way to Success: The Power to Transform Your Life One Step at a Time by Carolyn M Bowen

When surfers hit the waters, they use a technique called cross-stepping, or moving their weight forward and backward to stay standing. Cross-stepping isn't just a good idea for surfers, though - you, too, can metaphorically use the same strategy of zig-zagging motions to achieve success. In "Cross-Stepping Your Way to Success," career coach Carolyn Bowen shows you how to zig-zag your way to success one step at a time. She examines grieving, life planning, owning your power, becoming health conscious, learning to love again, and more. With Cross-Stepping Your Way to Success, you'll discover how to maintain your balance on the choppy waters of life!

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Room 203 – A Marice Houston Mystery by Dellani Oakes

Having just moved in with her fiance, Kris, Marice isn't too happy to be given an out of town job. She has been sent to Daytona Beach, Florida. There's been a huge sting operation, and the local FBI is under scrutiny. The Marshals have been called in to oversee prisoner transfers.

Things get sticky when Marice and her team are ordered to transport the ringleader, China Finetti, from Daytona Beach to a federal prison in Kansas City. Someone sets a car bomb, injuring Marice and Butch—and that's only the tip of the iceberg. Everything seems to point to China Finetti pulling the strings from prison—if so, how do they prove it?

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Finding You -Book 1 by Amanda Mackey

Life is hard. Marriage can be harder. Especially for Dakota Livingston whose husband turned into a monster…

After surviving a beating that puts her in hospital she is determined to get her life together and move forward. While on a month’s holiday to celebrate a new chapter in her life, the last thing Dakota expects is to fall in love with handsome movie actor, Kyle Rutherford…

After a whirlwind romance, Dakota’s trip is cut short after discovering her ex-husband has injured her beloved father. Not wanting to leave her blissful new relationship with Kyle, she has no choice but to return home without him while he finishes filming a movie. A broken heart is the least of Dakota’s troubles, as fate steps in to change her life forever… Testing not only her will but her sanity. 

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To Ends of the Earth: High Plains to Patagonia by Nelda B Gaydou

On the road to seek work in the cotton fields of Texas, an old Ford Model T truck breaks down and forces a change of destination that ultimately leads the protagonists to the Argentine Patagonia. Follow the anecdote-driven story of a devoted couple who spent their childhood in the U.S. Southwest during the Great Depression, met and married during World War II, and together undertook a lifelong journey of adventure and service.

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