New Releases by Kelley McMorris

"My Brother''s Story by Allen Johnson, Jr., is the first of three adventure stories from Blackwater Novels ... The Blackwater novels are set in the 1930s along the fictional Blackwater River and Blackwater Swamp near the fictional town of Turpentine, Georgia and in the countryside near Birmingham, Alabama. The books follow the lives and the families of identical twins, Will and Johnny Jennison, Raddiker Fox and Abraham Lincoln Fraiser--known as Linc--a black man who lives deep in the Blackwater Swamp. My Brother''s Story is the first of three novels which introduce identical twins Johnny and Will who are orphaned and separated as toddlers. Johnny is adopted by an abusive aunt in Tennessee; Will is adopted by a loving, affluent couple who lives in the country near Birmingham, Alabama. When he grows into boyhood, Johnny runs away and is sheltered by a black man who lives deep in the Blackwater Swamp. My Brother''s Story follows the twins'' adventures as they struggle to unite. Readers of all ages, especially the adventuresome type are invited to enter the Blackwater Novels and return to an earlier time when children might explore a hidden grave, sleep in a tree-house, listen to the critters in the swamp, catch a fish, go to sleep by the embers of a camp fire or blow-up a toilet with a cherry bomb. Explore the fun of getting into trouble and the magic and mystery of nature. You will never leave"--Amazon.com.