Winter's Reckoning
a novel

It’s sadly relevant, even though the time in this captivating debut novel set in a small town in Appalachia is 1917. “… ignorance breeds fear, and fear hate.” Don’t we know this now! The novel is a good piece of historical fiction reflecting the cruel times of Jim Crow laws and the KKK. It’s a story......more

This is an absorbing page-turner about an era, a locale, and a population that we too rarely read about. By the autumn of 1917, Maddie Fairbanks thought she'd become an accepted and even loved member of the isolated Appalachian town where she's lived for nearly 30 years. She'd moved there from Boston......more

Her ancestors were healers. Mysterious, wise, noble. They championed their ideals and frequently stood accused for them. Some were legends. She doubted such people still existed in 1917. from Winter’s Reckoning by Adele Holmes, M.D. Set in Southern Appalachia in 1917, Winter’s Reckoning is about Maddi......more

Winter's Reckoning is a beautiful and well written novel about life in Appalachia in 1917 where the separation of the races is enforced by the KKK and women are kept in their places as second class citizens. Maddie is a 46 year old widow from Boston who is a healer. There is no doctor in the small to......more

In the small town of Jamesville in Southern Appalachia in 197, Madeline Fairbanks does her best to keep the town healthy with the herbal remedies passed down through her family. Madeline also tries her best to push the townspeople toward racial and gender equality with the help of her black apprenti......more