Jim Gulledge, Author

In Green Forest, Red Earth, Blue Sea, a small pocket watch passes through the fingers and lives of three families spread out across the rugged terrain of North Carolina. Over the course of a hundred years, the timepiece bears witness to the loves and losses of the Keller, Elliott and McClure families. As the heirloom is passed, questions are posed: “Can strength and goodness be gifted to one’s heirs”? “Can corruption and evil”? “Do the lives of ancestors have any bearing on those who come after them”?

This sweeping family saga speaks from Reconstruction to the modern age of what binds families together and tears them apart. On every page, powers of darkness and light fight for the mind and heart of each character.

From mountains to sea in a land of beauty populated by Scots Irish pioneers, cotton farmers, Native Americans, fishermen and pirates, Green Forest, Red Earth. Blue Sea is a chronicle of human failings, the power of redemption and a probing narrative as to which is the stronger force.

Scheduled for release on July 19th, 2024

In the North Carolina mountains two people, destined to love each other, are doomed to be apart.

Vancie Keller is trying to survive on her mother’s failing farm when her life is forever altered by the arrival of two men, Josiah Buckland and Jagger Hill.

One, she will love, the other she will marry. She has a secret neither of them know.

Orphaned as a teen, Josiah Buckland came down from the rugged mountains of North Carolina to try to find work and possibly a home. He didn’t expect to find the love of his life.

Jagger Hill has secrets of his own. When he comes to town and starts to rebuild, nobody knows him for who he really is, but people will soon learn. Some things cannot be kept hidden forever…

A powerful, heart-breaking tale of the tremendous consequences of our choices and actions, sprinkled with revelry in the natural world, faith, song and myth.