Virginia Ellis Books In Order

Novels

  1. Dear John… (1994)
  2. In Praise of Younger Men (1995)
  3. Michael’s Angel (1996)
  4. Night Heat (1997)
  5. Tall, Dark and Restless (2000)
  6. The Wedding Dress (2002)
  7. The Photograph (2003)
  8. Loving a Younger Man (2017)

Omnibus

  1. Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes (2000)
  2. More Sweet Tea (2005)

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Virginia Ellis Books Overview

The Wedding Dress

We began the dress on the last evening in October. For three sisters, it will become a banner of hope, spun from delicate memories of genteel tradition and woven with threads of possibility. Through the desolate landscape of winter, it will act as a beacon of unexpected fortune and faith in a world void of promise. It will inspire the noble heart that lies dormant beneath layers of grief. Together, the stalwart ladies of Oak Creek, Virginia will fashion their impossible dreams into…
The Wedding DressVirginia Renfro Ellis’s extraordinary work of historical fiction evokes the tattered essence of the post Civil War South, where widows, children, and scarred veterans were left to reconstruct a country. There is little to wish for in the lives of the Atwater women. Julia and Victoria were barely brides before their husbands marched off with the doomed Confederate army. Now alone, with scarcely enough money to see them through until spring, they embark on an impetuous mission to bring a sparkle of joy back into their youngest sister s eyes. Seventeen year old Claire has always wanted to be married. And though she has no intended groom, her sisters decide to sew her a wedding gown. As the dress takes shape, the gates of their meager plantation home welcome the arrival of Sergeant Monroe Tacy. He has come to fulfill a dying man s last request, but his presence begins a series of remarkable events that will transform the Atwater sisters forever. The Wedding Dress is an unforgettable lesson in hope, written with the natural simplicity and beauty of a born storyteller. From the Hardcover edition.

The Photograph

As a nation of young soldiers marches off to war, two women left behind will embrace a final keepsake, a profound reminder of the moment before their lives changed forever its bittersweet images telling the story of an innocence lost, of a love just beginning, and of a family that may never be whole again…
. The PhotographIn her highly acclaimed hardcover debut, The Wedding Dress, Virginia Ellis earned a place among the new stars of women’s fiction with her unforgettable portrait of sisters mending their dreams from the tattered remains of the Civil War. Now she triumphs once again in this stirring new novel of hope and the enduring spirit of those bound by the passions of the heart. For Maddy Marshall, it was a time of jitterbug contests and drugstore sodas. Then on her seventeenth birthday, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Suddenly all the boys she grew up with, including her fianc , ran off to enlist, ready to defend their country. It was all incredibly romantic to Maddy. Until the fateful night before her brother Davey shipped out, the night she danced with dreamy Lieutenant Tull Martin, the night of The Photograph when her world fell apart. Only Davey s frail wife, Ruth, will discover what happened, helping Maddy to hide her grave secret and its undeniable consequences. Together these sisters of the heart maintain a deception that, like the shifting reflections of a picture, becomes a beacon of possibility to be cherished until fate brings their men home. Written with warmth and grace, The Photograph is a moving celebration of the women who lived, loved, and came of age in a time of overwhelming heartbreak.

Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes

Six award winning authors have created a poignant, humorous collection of nostalgic tales. Here life’s lessons are handed down liberally sprinkled with hilarity from eccentric relatives, outrageous pets and unrepentant neighbors, and served up with a generous dollop of that most valued of all Southern commodities: good old fashioned storytelling. From Mississippi to Georgia, from Florida to Tennessee, these daughters of the South will take you on a lush tour of the times and the places they know best, each voice as refreshing and inviting as a glass of cold sweet tea on a hot afternoon.

More Sweet Tea

Settle back into that comfortable chair and enjoy a second helping of poignant, humorous and nostalgic tales about how things used to be in the legendary South. From vindictive mules and small town marriage rituals that include a pig, to Grandma’s story of how a quilt square got her a husband and a home remedy of the hemorrhoidal variety that goes awry, More Sweet Tea delivers what readers have been thirsting for since the first in the Sweet Tea series, Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes.

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