The Rising

West Virginia, 1937...

It was not a place one could visit without an invitation.

It wasn't what Harlan Fleming had planned. Yet, when he heard there would be no school if a teacher couldn't be found for this year, something about the place called out to him. It wasn't just the fact that his only living relative had ventured into those same hills and never come out, again. Or that there were things which needed to be said between them that would take a long time to explain. Those were ordinary things.

What the young teacher felt on the day he stepped off the train, in Cedarville, was not ordinary. The others were there that day, too, reaching into his heart-uninvited-the same way he was reaching out to them. As if all the forces of life were suddenly converging into that single place and time. As if something significant-and highly important-were about to happen.

As if it actually would.

Lilly Maytree is an inspirational adventure novelist who decided to prove to herself that some of the things her characters did could be done in real life. A decision that sent her careening along on a very long voyage through the Inside Passage to Alaska with her captain husband aboard a sailboat called the Glory B.She eventually ended up on a faraway island that was so beautiful she never went home. She lives there on a float house, tucked into a little cove in the wilderness, with the Glory B tied up alongside, ready for more adventures. Which she loves sharing with readers. It has even been said that she time-travels (but that's probably just a rumor). To find out what she's doing right now, simply visit: LillyMaytree.comYou can also get in touch with her by sending an email to: lilly@LillyMaytree.com. It might take a few days if she is adventuring far away... but she always comes back sooner or later.