She Walks These Hills by Sharyn Mccrumb

She Walks These Hills by Sharyn Mccrumb

As he begins his term as President of State University, Jason Spradlin understands the challenges facing him, such as the need for additional funding from the state, the demands for more classroom and laboratory space, the ever increasing enrollment of students, the social demands, and adapting to living in the President's mansion. But he is not prepared for the reappearance of two old enemies released from prison. Jason and his family become targets of the two as they set out to exact revenge. The smashing of his wife Kathryn's car is followed by attempts to kill Jason with rifle shots, one of which wounds Maria, their long time housekeeper. After prolonged investigations by law enforcement, the siege ends with the shooting of one by a policeman and the suicide of the other. Jason becomes involved with the start up of a new athletic conference, the expansion of the university's campus, and the prevention of sexual attacks on coeds. His long association with the older man he rescued from the national park and their annual camp outs near Christmas ends sadly when Robert Cleveland dies, leaving a huge estate to the university.

Sharyn McCrumb is a New York Times bestselling author noted for her Appalachian Ballad novels such as The Ballad of Frankie Silver, She Walks These Hills, and The Ballad of Tom Dooley. The East Tennessee Historical Society's Wilma Dykeman Prize for Literature and the Audie Award for Outstanding Recorded Book went to Ghost Riders. She was a featured author at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. In 2006, she was named a Virginia Woman of History for Literature Achievement by the White House, and the Library of Virginia named her a Virginia Woman of History for Literature Achievement in 2008. Chowan University in North Carolina gave her the Mary Frances Hobson Award for Southern Writing in 2014.

She is based in Roanoke, Virginia, where she writes. Kirkus Reviews Popular North Carolina author McCrumb (The Songcatcher, etc.) returns with another epic song of a novel, this time a multi-tiered Civil War saga with an otherworldly twist that connects past and present. Publishers Weekly is a publication dedicated to the publishing industry.