Sold to the Mountain Stranger

As a broke local guide, I deliver women to the reclusive Mr. Knox—never asking questions, just pocketing the cash. But when I glimpse chained ankles, desperate bargains, and forbidden passion under the stars, guilt and terror threaten to drown me. I’m trapped between exposing a secret harem on the cliffs and becoming the next pawn in Knox’s cruel game.

Ten city strangers, one wild mountain, and a local guide who sells more than adventure. When a secret trade turns the camp into a web of desire and lies, I’m forced to choose between loyalty to my cousin and the truth about what really happens after dark. In the wild, everyone’s hiding something—and some secrets burn hotter than the campfire.

Some monsters only come out when it snows. Trapped on a mountain road in a blizzard, a ragtag crew of Appalachian townsfolk must take shelter—or risk being hunted by the legendary Snow Devil. But when one of their own vanishes into the whiteout and returns with pockets full of gold, old loyalties are tested by greed, fear, and something far more sinister. The storm is relentless, the gold is real, and the thing wearing Dave’s face is hungry. Will anyone survive the night, or will the mountain claim them all? When gold gleams brighter than old warnings, who do you trust—your friends, or the thing that wears their skin?

A chilling Appalachian tale of family, fate, and the deadly secrets lurking on a haunted mountain road, as a boy witnesses desperate bargains and confronts the thin line between the living and the dead.

When a reclusive 'wild man' is captured in 1950s Appalachia, his shocking identity unravels a hidden legacy of wartime injustice. As father and son fight for truth and justice across continents and decades, the fate of thousands—and the soul of a nation—hangs in the balance.

When Derek breaks every rule and picks up a terrified family stranded on a dark Smoky Mountain road, he becomes the target of a vengeful spirit in a blood-red sports car. With every mile, the line between the living and the dead blurs—and the family's secrets might be the key to surviving the night. In these mountains, mercy is a gamble, and some passengers are never meant to leave.

Caleb watched his mother die and was dragged into a nightmare, ripped from home with his little brother and sold to strangers who erased their names. Eighteen years later, he returns to the town that betrayed him, haunted by the memory of the day his family was shattered and the brother he lost in the darkness. Some scars never fade—and Caleb will risk everything to uncover the truth, no matter who must pay.

Emily’s father dragged a mysterious woman from the Blue Ridge, unleashing a spiral of abuse and small-town superstition. When her mother dies and vengeance haunts the town, Emily faces a choice: obey her monstrous father, or become the weapon of her mother’s revenge. Blood ties, curses, and forbidden love twist together in a fight for justice and survival.

Traded by her starving father for four pieces of cornbread, Molly’s only path to survival is serving as a maid in the ruthless Whitaker mansion. When she’s forced to compete against a beautiful rival for the young master’s favor—and a chance to escape a life of servitude—one misstep could cost her everything. In a world where dignity is a luxury and betrayal lurks in every hallway, will she risk her soul for freedom?

He called me worthless, then sold me to save my brother. My name is Jessie, and my family traded me for a dowry—no love, no regret. Forced into a marriage with a cruel, dangerous man, I learned that survival means more than silence; it means fighting for every scrap of dignity they tried to take. In a town where girls are currency and justice is just a rumor, I turned secrets into power and betrayal into a weapon. But when exposing my husband's darkest crimes sets the whole town against me, I must decide: will I save the family that broke me, or let them drown in the world they made? If justice means standing alone, is it worth everything I’ve lost?

I was sold at fourteen, a child bride traded for cash, forced to raise a stranger’s baby in a world that never wanted me. Every kindness I found was fleeting—until betrayal and heartbreak left me and little Holly out in the cold, abandoned by the only family we had. Now, as secrets unravel and old loves return, I must fight to save the girl I raised as my own—even if it means facing the ghosts of my past and the brutal judgment of a small town. When the world turns its back, how far will a mother go for the child she loves? And in the frozen darkness, will anyone come to save us before it’s too late?

Emily was traded to the Walkers with nothing but a battered backpack and the promise that, if she could fill a pickle jar with hard-earned coins, Evan Walker would marry her. Mocked, starved, and forced to fight for every crumb of dignity, Emily’s dream of belonging shatters when she learns the engagement was meant for another family all along. Now, with her jar finally full and Evan’s cruel games exposed, she must choose: the cold comfort of wealth or the honest poverty—and unexpected tenderness—of the Walters’ son.