Ronnie Deaton

Appalachian author, U.S. Army vet & master yarn spinner of Kentucky legends, ghosts & mountain tales. 18 books deep and still roaming the hills.

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A chilling atmospheric horror novel on the crumbling Maine coast. A leaning lighthouse that remembers. A town surviving on forgotten memories. Wet coats that return from the sea. Cod left on doorsteps like receipts. And a hungry light that lies to keep everyone alive.If you love quiet, creeping dread, ancient bargains, and lighthouses that feel alive — this one is for https://t.co/OCmpr5b3HV available on Kindle → https://t.co/mdq9tva9tE Deaton, 80 years young, has published 20 books with readers in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, China, and beyond. His Ghost Bride of Cumberland Falls hit #9 in Mysteries on Amazon, and his memoir Soul of the Hills was a national book award finalist.Pure storytelling from a writer who does it for the readers.Highly recommended. Grab it and help welcome The Light Lies into the world!

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@HazelLiaqa4848 that is completely opposite the truth

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In the hills of southeastern Kentucky, a truth can travel two roads at once. One road is official, paved with reports, signatures, typed conclusions, and the tidy language men use when they would rather close a file than open a grave. The other road is older, narrower, and harder to follow. It winds through hollows, porches, kitchens, store counters, cemetery slopes, and the private memories of those who know when a story has been made too clean to be true.
This book begins with damage and ends with accounting. Between those points lie Arthur and Rufus, two men whose friendship forms out of whiskey, land, work, and the uneasy knowledge that money makes a man visible. Arthur has built his life through timber, deals, surveys, and profit. Rufus has survived on worn hands, thin mornings, family devotion, and the long wait for a government letter that might ease the weight of poverty. Their circumstances are different, but both understand that cash can draw attention faster than it brings peace.

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@innamagz Lying

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@mjfree There isn't one.

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I sat at the kitchen table in Laurel County that June morning with a cup of chocolate gone lukewarm beside my notebook. The television murmured in the next room, the kind of low drone you half-hear until a name cuts through like a church bell on a still Sunday. “Vice President-elect J.D. Vance made a quiet trip back to Breathitt County today.” Penny stepped in from the living room, wiping her hands on a dish towel, and knew before I said a word.
On the screen, a convoy moved slowly along a familiar hollow road. Then the camera found him: a tall man in a dark jacket, head bowed among simple stones on a green hillside. Five generations, the reporter said. Including Bonnie “Mamaw” Blanton Vance. Something shifted in me right then. Not the politician. The man. The boy from the hills who still came home to stand with his people before the weight of Washington settled on his shoulders.
I looked out our window at the ridges wrapped in low clouds and felt the same tug he must have felt. These mountains do not let go easy. Penny and I are both eighty now. We have spent decades chasing paper trails, county formation dates, marriage bonds, land deeds, faded census entries, building the thick genealogy we called From Whence Cometh Thou. We wore out tires on back roads from Laurel to Lee County, Virginia. We sat in dim courthouses until our eyes burned.. Only the records speak here, she would say. Nothing more, nothing less. But records are bones. Stories are the flesh and breath. When I saw J.D. Vance in that cemetery, the living voices rose louder than the paper ever could. I knew then we had one more book to write. Not about policies or power. Plenty of folks will write those.
This one is about belonging. About how two parallel creeks, Deaton and Feltner, touching the Blanton-Hounshell-Vance line, flow through the same hard mountains and meet again in the shared soil of Breathitt and Leslie Counties. This is not another dry genealogy. It is flesh and breath, laughter and sorrow, the everyday miracles of people who refused to let hard ground break them. The hills do not care about titles. They care who remembers them. When J.D. Vance came home that June day, he reminded us all. A man can go as far as the world allows and still feel the tug of family stones on a misty hillside. That pull is older than any office. It is the thread that runs from Buck’s cabin to that cemetery, from soap kettles in the 1820s to kitchen tables today.

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@HazelLiaqa4848 an Iron ball

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@JamesTate121 The list is too long to itemize. Start with his war and prices that are through the roof because of it.

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@Zack_magaig Yes, he has almost single handedly
ruined the economy and turned our government into a dictatorship. yep, trump has done more. he should be deported.

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@AdamtrendHQ That is completely false. 95 percent do not say that

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@Harvie3Culley Increase the deficit beyond reason.

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@DanBig9953 yes

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@0ivankaTrump1 absolutely no

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@HazelLiaqa4848 yes

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@sawsharee yes

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@lobosgatos good,bye

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@EastEndJoe Yes

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@Robustbusriding @HalfwayPost You are so full of it, and dont know what you are talking about.

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@Murk441 Hippo

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@femalebodybuil6 Donald Trump