Sarah Loudin Thomas

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Sarah Loudin Thomas grew up on a 100-acre farm in French Creek, WV, the seventh generation to live there. Her Christian fiction is set in West Virginia and celebrates the people, the land, and the heritage of Appalachia.

Sarah is a fund-raiser for a children’s ministry who has time to write because she doesn’t have children of her own. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Coastal Carolina University and is the author of the acclaimed novels The Right Kind of Fool–winner of the 2021 Selah Book of the year–and Miracle in a Dry Season–winner of the 2015 Inspy Award. Sarah has also been a finalist for the Christy Award, ACFW Carol Award and the Christian Book of the Year Award. She and her husband live near Asheville, NC.

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The Finder of Forgotten Things

It's 1932 and Sulley is on the run. He promised the people of Kline, WV, that he would find water, but he failed and disappeared with their cash. Now he's trying to stay a step ahead of pursuers--like Jeremiah—and his resources are running dry. Gainey is suspicious of Sulley's claim to be a dowser but reconsiders after he finds water. Rather, it's Sulley who grows uneasy when his success makes folks wonder if he can find more than water--like missing people. He lights out to escape such expectations and runs smack into something worse.

  • The Right Kind of Fool

    When thirteen-year-old Loyal Raines discovers a dead body, he runs to his absentee father for help. Creed blames himself for his son’s deafness but as the two work together to solve a murder, he learns that it isn’t Loyal’s inability to hear that sets him apart—it’s his courage.

  • When Silence Sings

    Colman Harpe’s desire to be a preacher is put to the test when a member of the rival McLean clan guns down his cousin. Although he clearly hears God telling him to preach to clan matriarch, Serepta McLean, he ducks the calling and ends up being the unexpected catalyst for breaking her iron grip.