In Smith County, surviving was never the hard part.
Read Wayne McCulley's Lucille Rises
In Smith County, surviving was never the hard part.
Read Wayne McCulley's Lucille Rises
About LUCILLE RISES
In Smith County, surviving was never the hard part.
In the heat and shadows of South Carolina, bad luck isn't just a streak; it's a curse.
Lucille has spent her life surviving things no one should have to endure. Violence, betrayal, and loss follow her like a warning she can't outrun. Sharp-minded and resilient, she learns early that strength isn't about being fearless: it's about standing back up when the world keeps knocking you down.
Life in Smith County chooses its victims randomly. Until it doesn't. A woman of old money and older secrets makes Lucille an offer that could lift her out of everything Smith County was going to make of her life.
Lucille Rises is a dark, suspenseful Southern novel about the cost of survival and the price of escape - where secrets are deadly and rising may be the most dangerous move of all.
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