Cindy Sproles
Visit Cindy's Website- Multi-Genre Author:
- Appalachian Historical Fiction
- Historical Women’s Fiction
Cindy K. Sproles is an author, teacher, and conference speaker. She is a best-selling, award-winning author whose ability to tell a story that resonates with listeners. Cindy is the cofounder of Christian Devotions Ministries and Executive Editor for Christian Devotions Ministries. She is the director of the Asheville Christian Writers Conference and a lead managing editor for Iron Stream Media, LLC imprints, SonRise Devotionals and Straight Street Books. Cindy wears many hats in the industry, but her favorite is introducing readers to the Appalachian Mountains. Her novels sweep readers backward in time and actively make them a part of the culture, hardships, and friendships found in old ways of the mountains. Born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains, Cindy and her husband have raised four sons and live in the foothills of the mountains they love.
What Momma Left Behind
Worie Dressar is seventeen years old when influenza and typhoid ravage her Appalachian Mountain community in 1877, leaving behind a growing number of orphaned children with no way to care for themselves. Worie’s mother has been secretly feeding sever of these little ones on Sourwood Mountain. But when tragedy strikes, Worie is left to figure out why and how she was caring for them. Plagued with two good-for-nothing brothers – one greedy, the other a drunkard – Worie must fight to save her home and the children now in her begrudging care. Along the way, she discovers the beauty of unconditional love and the power of forgiveness as she cares for all of Momma’s children.
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Mercy's Rain
Married and widowed at thirteen, a mother and childless at fifteen Mercy has spent her life with her abusive Pastor father. Until Mercy takes matters into her own hands and finds unconditional love and compassion available for her shattered life.
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Liar’s Winter
Lochiel Ogle's red-wine birthmark put her in jeopardy. Called “the mark of the Devil”, she's left for dead until she is rescued by a stranger who shows her kindness and love. When her life is in danger again, she learns the depths of forgiveness.
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