A Merry Chatty Christmas: A Stella Bankwell Story

Stella Bankwell is going home for Christmas, leaving behind her quaint cottage on St. Simons Island and heading back to Turner’s Corner, the farm where she happily grew up in the North Georgia mountains shadowed by the Appalachian Trail. Her best friend, Chatham Balsam Colquitt IV, aka Chatty, will be left to have Christmas in one of his opulent mansions in Sea Island, Atlanta, or a plantation outside of Savannah. When Stella invites Chatty to join her, he worries about the rustic nature of the farm. Joining them are their two mystery solving friends: former Governor McCager Burnett and his sweet wife, Alva, who also own a farm near Stella’s family. Alva has secretly invited Stella’s crush, U.S. Marshal Jackson ＂Pepper＂ Culpepper. Expecting a relaxing, non-eventful Christmas, they find that it is anything but. The snowy Christmas they spend at Turner’s Corner is surprising and challenging but will leave them deeply satisfied.

Ronda Rich is a bestselling author, syndicated Southern columnist, and award-winning journalist. She is in love with her characters Stella Bankwell and Chatham Balsam Colquitt IV almost as much as her readers. An eleventh-generation Georgian, Rich is the author of two Stella Bankwell Mysteries: ST. SIMONS ISLAND and SAPELO ISLAND.