Rose's Award Winning Historical Fiction
Winner of the 2014 Indie Reader Discovery Award
Dancing on Rocks. Nursing her mother back to health wasn’t all that drew Georgie Hay-dock back to the little mountain tourist town. Hiding around every corner are a family’s painful memories of a child who disappeared in the middle of the night 25 years ago. The summer roils as her mother thrashes in her bed, insisting that the woman stalking her store downstairs is her missing daughter. Meanwhile, Georgie aches to reunite with the hometown boy she’s never forgotten.
Falling Off a Cliff. In the 1920s, Lula Mae clings to a doctor woman as they gallop horseback all over the steep, harsh Blue Ridge Mountains. In the 60s, Nurse Holly travels the same mountain paths to reach the ill and search for the mother she’s never known. Can Holly breach the fortress where mountain folk share a code of silence, or will she be denied the answer that would finally give her a glimpse of where she came from?
Carolina Belle. Carolina Belle. Belle McKenzie is obsessed with finding the best apple anyone ever bit into and determined to rekindle the love this obsession destroyed. She risks her life rescuing four hundred antique apple trees her neighbor has collected from all over the South. Pap thinks of Matt as a son, but Belle thinks of him as the man she loved and who betrayed her. Rich in emotion and driven by suspense, woven throughout this story is the fascinating history of the American apple.
Winner of the 2019 Historical Fiction Award from the N.C. Society of Historians, Inc.
Catching Fire. The thrilling story of the Party Rock Fire. Pushed to the breaking point with over twenty fires raging in the NC mountains, how does the state’s emergency response network combat this fire of biblical proportions threatening to devour four mountain communities. Woven throughout this tale of two firefighters in love, yet torn apart by swirling suspicions and mistrust, is the story of a family’s struggle with its past.
Winner of the 2012 IPPY Gold Medal, Fiction-Southeast
Render Unto the Valley. Karen Godwell isn’t as much ashamed of her mountain heritage as of what she once had to do to preserve it. She reinvents herself at college and doesn’t look back till her clan’s historic farm is threatened. She returns only to come face to face with who she was and what she did. Cousin Bruce sees life through the family’s colorful two-hundred-year-old past, while a local conservationist keeps one eye on the mountains and the other on Karen.
Nominated for the 2009 SIBA Book Award
In the Shadows of Chimney Rock. A touching tale of Family and Place. A Southern heiress reaches out to her mountain roots for solace after suffering a life-shattering blow, only to be drawn into a fight to save the beauty of the mountain her father loved. Hayden Taylor starts to heal in the womb of the gorge as she struggles to redeem her father’s legacy, never suspecting that the man who killed him is stalking her.
Nominated for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Award
The Wind in the Woods. A romantic thriller that reveals a man’s devotion to North Carolina’s Green River Valley and the camp he built to share its wonders; his daughter’s determination to hike the Blue Ridge, unaware that a serial killer is stalking her; and nine-year-old Alvin Magee’s heartwarming discovery of freedom and responsibility in a place apart from the adult world.
Other Novels by Rose Senehi
Laced with the flavor of the Low Country, a love story told against a backdrop of murder and suspense.
A young widow doesn't suspect that the man in the next farm has anything to do with the missing children.
She's hiding a dark secret while keeping ahead of the FBI and a gang of twisted activists who screwed up her life in the 60's.