Six-year-old Hannah Campbell woke in her own bed to a house gone strange. The man her father had welcomed beneath their roof was gone. His cigarette butt lay beside Hannah’s bed. Before noon, the doctor had sent for the sheriff.

Hannah remembered none of it.

The law called her the victim of a grave offense. Evangelist Silas Wade declared she’d been preserved for a higher purpose.

Soon, across county lines, people knew of Child H.

Hannah knew only that H was her letter.

In 1940s Appalachia, Alice is a quiet girl deeply tied to the father who raised her with patience and steady love.

When grief leaves her unmoored, she reaches for the first hand that seems to offer safety. Darrell Whitlow is handsome, devout, and admired. But inside his world, love comes with correction, faith comes with fear, and a woman’s goodness is measured by how much of herself she surrenders.

As silence and control close around her, Alice must learn that her own voice is not sinful, selfish, or small.

🏆 Winner of the 2026 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Grand Prize for Fiction, Alice Anyway is an Appalachian novel about grief, faith, survival, and becoming whole.

1940s Kentucky. A child stolen and hidden from the world.
A dress cut from a feed sack.
And a woman who spent her life surviving a past she could barely remember.

A Feed Sack Dress for Sadie is a haunting Appalachian story about identity, endurance, and the quiet strength it takes to build a life from almost nothing.

Ivy Lee has spent her whole life unseen.

Until the night a traveling carnival rolls into town — and offers her a way out.

What begins as a single, daring choice becomes a journey into a wider world—where identity, longing, and courage collide, and the life she’s been given is no longer the one she’s willing to keep.

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