In Tennyson County, time doesn’t pass so much as it settles, thick as red clay, clinging to everything it touches. Along the highway just past the bend where the kudzu starts to swallow the guardrails, sits Driskill’s Hardware. The sign creaks more than it shines now, but folks still know it. They always will.

Jessica Walters: Atlanta Feminist, CDC Analyst, Secret Keeper The Road to Noeware, Woven Branches Series Jessica Walters is a feminist from Atlanta who works for the CDC and keeps a secret that even her closest allies don’t fully understand. She has never been to Noeware, the Southern town at the heart of G.L. Yancy’s Woven Branches Southern Gothic novella series, yet that place is somehow woven into her past in ways she cannot escape.

In the hush of Georgia’s low country—where cypress trees rise like crooked fingers and the air hangs thick with memory, there’s a place most maps refuse to name. It's called Tennyson County. Fewer still will speak of what lies just beyond its edges: the swamp outside Noeware.

There are places in Georgia where the air hangs heavy with memory, where the cypress knees rise like knuckles from the earth and the water keeps its secrets. Noeware is one of those places. Tucked just beyond the polite maps and paved intentions, Noeware, Georgia, breathes in its own rhythm, slow, damp, and listening. The townsfolk will tell you not to wander too far past the tree line at dusk. They will not explain why. They do not have to. Because sooner or later, you will hear about her.

There are towns you pass through, and there are towns that pass through you. Noeware, Georgia belongs to the latter.

Jack Bates is in charge of the Noeware, Georgia branch of the public library.

Dr. Givens is the husband of another doctor, Meg Givens.

Ned Wilson is the kind of guy that other guys look up to.

Meet Garbo

Welcome to Billy's Loft

In the early 1970s, Ruth Blakely and Jerri Hansard shared an apartment in Atlanta's Little 5 Points neighborhood.

Dr. Hansard is the best friend of Mayor Ruth Blakely. Her daughter, Tina, is Ruth's visually impaired trusted assistant. Jerri is Noeware, Georgia's most popular psychologist.

Some books you edit. Others edit you. Periwinkle Blues is the latter.

Meg is daughter to Harrison and Camille Tennyson, sister to Gail Wilson, and wife of Dr. Don Givens. She's on a quest to find herself in between shifts at Tennyson General Hospital.

The Waddell family has one member who seems to be immune from its drama, Dog. That's right, the dog's name is Dog, and he has witnessed some real shenanigans.

Camille Tennyson is the woman everyone loves to hate. She is the mother of Gail and Meg, and the wife of Commissioner Harrison Tennyson.

Woven Branches, Book 5, The Periwinkle Blues is a special edition of the series. This book features about 85% flashback scenes used to answer a lot of big questions.

Meet Rufus

Miss Agnes, as folks around Tennyson County call her, is South Georgia's crankiest cleaning lady. You can try to stay away from Agnes' bad side, but she doesn't really have a good one.