After three years of research, and two years in the publishing cycle, my historical nonfiction book, CURSED, is up on Amazon from Adelaide Books! You can find it on Amazon, here.
When young Marion Alsobrook Stahlman falls ill after giving birth to her second son, her husband Douglas is hundreds of miles away, working for a cult that advocates faith healing over medicine. He returns to her side in February of 1901 and makes a series of draconian decisions, with the national press eagerly reporting on every aspect of the controversy.
Who was Marion Alsobrook Stahlman, the center of this tragedy? How did she come to be the focus of intense press coverage and the subject of protests outside her sickroom window? This book explores Marion’s family saga, from her ancestor landing in Jamestown in 1609 to the death of her youngest son in 1962. Using a combination of narrative nonfiction and fictional vignettes, the stories explore the changing role of women, the tensions between the growing medical profession and faith, Southern slavery, yeoman farming and more.