Familiar Shadows

This coming-of-age story, a sequel to the author's first novel, Her Own Law, is set in the Deep South during the waning days of World War II. Twelve-year-old Luke "Skeets" McLendon and his best friend, Will Sheffield, fall for Lydia Powell, a beautiful, recently orphaned girl their same age. When his aunt, Tweeve Huggins, assumes temporary custody of Lydia, Skeets' life becomes complicated in more ways than one and he soon learns a lesson about love and loss.

Bert Goolsby, a Citadel graduate who holds a law degree from the University of South Carolina and an advanced law degree from the University of Virginia. He is a former prosecutor and a retired appellate judge. He and his wife make their home in Columbia, South Carolina.