Rusty Savage

ALIAS COREY SUTTON, a down-to-earth novel set in a small southern town brings out all that is special about its people, tradition, loyalty, kindness, and love. It shows the heart-wrenching effects of a boy struggling to find his beginnings

On a warm fall day in late September, a fifteen-year-old boy and his twin sister step off a city bus in front of the gate at the county fair. It is opening day, and they expect to be there all day and ride the bus home that night full of the joy and excitement of it all. But before the day ends, tragedy strikes, and the lives of two families are changed forever. Danny knows that it must be something to find, an answer to save his friend.

Judson Ringo has not been dealt an easy hand in life. After loosing his father, and nine months later his mother, he is left on his own at seventeen in rural 1890s Kentucky. He goes to Tennessee to live with his uncle, but instead of being treated like family, he is a slave. Judson faces each challenge as it comes, thinking only to survive. After four years in bondage, John Harrington dies and Judson is set free. He returns to his father's farm on a cold winter night, finds it in ruins, is suspected of murder, and begins life all over, finding strength in the midst of struggle

Sam's brother was dead. The Law wasnt doing anything about it and Sam had decided he would. It was 1938 and the county was full of Bootleggers. One of them 'Shiners did it. Sam was gonna find out who and he knew how to do it. Trouble is there are a lot of prime suspects and a good deal of danger from any one of them. Sam has a plan, if he can keep out of sight of the Sheriff long enough and keep from getting killed himself. He knows the woods and hills and he already found a place to die.

THE HIGHEST HILL is the story of two young brothers, Bobby and Jackie Ringo, struggling to overcome the hardships of rural western Kentucky in the '40s and '50s. Their lives and futures are fraught with pitfalls and roadblocks, both debilitating and deadly. The reader will feel the dreams, aspirations and wonder of the youngest whilst living and growing up in very different time than our own. The boys cope with a drinking and abusive father, barely avoiding reform school, struggle to stay in school and overcome their circumstance and elevate themselves and their family. The brothers reach higher and higher to achieve a better life. Follow them through the early 1950s, starting at ages' nine and twelve, through their high school years to a dramatic climax of personal and physical struggle with the ""Ringo Streak"" and its repercussions. If they survive, it'll be to eventually realize the true lessons of the Highest Hill which continues to reveal its real measure and meaning.