The Treasure of Moonlight Ridge (The Moonlight Ridge Series)

When winter weather up on the mountain went from unusually cold to undeniably arctic, and a surprising stranger appeared at the door, Lily Claire Nash and her cousin, Willie T. Nock, found themselves knee deep in chilling circumstances beyond anything the two young sleuths had ever imagined. But Lily Claire and Willie T. never turned away from a challenging adventure or a puzzling mystery. So that’s how they ended up searching for treasure on Moonlight Ridge.

If J. M. Barrie’s Neverland were in Alabama, it would be located right in the middle of Ramey Channell’s Moonlight Ridge. Like Neverland, Moonlight Ridge is populated by magic beings, ne’er-do-well pirates, and children who never grow old. The Ridge may be a place of the mind, but in Channell’s skillful hands it becomes a symbol of that era that once existed in rural America, or the era that we would like to believe existed. For her third installment in this series, The Treasure of Moonlight Ridge, her precocious protagonists, Lily C. Nash and Willie T. Nock, find themselves thinking that the approaching Christmas would be the most exciting time of their lives till they become embroiled in a bizarre kidnapping and a wild treasure hunt while being pursued by a trio of off-beat criminals. A delightful read even for cynical old men like me.
— Mike Burrell, author, The Land of Grace

 Ramey Channell, award winning Alabama author, poet, and artist, is the author of three novels: Sweet Music on Moonlight Ridge (2010) The Witches of Moonlight Ridge (2016) and The Treasure of Moonlight Ridge (2021). Her children's picture book, written and illustrated by Ramey, is Mice from the Planet Zimlac (2021), also available in a French edition, Les Souriceaux de la Planete Zimlac (2022), translated by Alexandrine Duteil Stebach. Ramey's poems and stories have been published by Well Read Magazine, Aura Literary Arts Review, Alabama State Poetry Society, Birmingham Arts Journal, Ordinary and Sacred as Blood: Alabama Women Speak (1999), Belles Letters 2: Contemporary Stories by Alabama Women (2017) and many other journals and collections. She is currently working on her fourth southern fiction novel in the Moonlight Ridge Series.