Downtown Green by Judy Christie

Downtown Green by Judy Christie

When the short bypass around Green opens with much fanfare, downtown dries up faster than cement on the roadway. Businesses close, and the hospital becomes a clinic. Mayor Eva must decide whether to sell her historic store or close it. The Holey Moley Antique Mall seems less like a dream and more like a nightmare.

While the road is progress to some, it seems to be leading Green toward a national trend - a town that is merely a shadow of itself. With the town going backward, Lois leans on her faith but is both intrigued and jealous when a fellow business owner comes up with a strategy to save Green. But can her plan rescue the town from the path it's on?

Judy Christie creates Louisiana-themed novels, such as the Green series, which follows a big-city journalist who ends up leading a small-town newspaper in Green, Louisiana. Judy has kept a notebook since she was nine years old, and she still has all of them, thanks to a writing career that began when she was the editor of her elementary school newspaper. She is the author of the popular nonfiction Hurry Less Worry Less series, which is full of practical and encouraging ideas for busy people who want to slow down and appreciate each day more. Around her home in Stonewall, Louisiana, she enjoys porch swings, fried pies, and flea markets. She enjoys interacting with readers and writers, and she blogs at www.judychristie.com.