Books by Barbara P Walsworth

Anna Belle Lee had been wandering in the land of lost, bored and lonely widowhood for two years...unable to sleep or focus. She had not had a 'cry-free' day since Mac's death. His clothes still hung in the closet. She sprayed their room with his cologne daily. She had begun to wonder if she needed professional help. But then she returned home one morning to find Jesse Allen sitting in a rocker on her front porch, naked and homeless...her life was never the same. Under the Pecan Tree is not a murder mystery. There is no killing or kidnapping. No guns or war. No sci-fi creatures. No graphic sex. (Well, some kissing) And no profanity, just a little cussing. It is simply a fun, delightful, happy book.

Charlie's Moment is an intensely, emotional story of a family held hostage by their love for a son caught in the agony of drug abuse and the tragedy that follows. Stevie Thomas' eighteen-year-old son, Charlie, is missing. It isn't uncommon for him to disappear for a day or two...hiding out with his drugs, but now he has been gone seven days. Something is wrong...call it Motherly intuition or whatever, she just knows. Afraid to go to the police because of his drugs, she searches for him herself and finds him in a drug house...almost dead from a new drug he tried. Rushing to get him to a hospital, she has a terrible car accident and is hospitalized in a coma. Later when she awakens and asks for her Charlie, she is told he wasn't in the car with her. Everyone, including her mother, Maggie, believes Stevie is confused due to her coma, but she is positive Charlie was with her and she is positive he is dead...and in heaven...because she saw him there. In her search for her son, she is forced to join forces with her ex, Rick, who she blames for Charlie's unhappiness and drug use. Who took Charlie from her car and why? Did someone harm him? If he is dead as Stevie believes, where is his body?

Barbara P. Walsworth grew-up in the backwoods and freshwater swamps of northwest Louisiana. She draws from her experiences there to create intriguing characters and a suspenseful novel, The Red Dirt Road. In the summer of 1962, fourteen year old Partheny Preiste''s abusive, alcoholic father moved his family from southwest Texas to the backwoods of northwest Louisiana...and then, immediately abandons them. While struggling for the basic necessities, they discover someone is watching from the surrounding woods. And, even more disturbing, they learn of the recent murder of a small black child found in the swamp behind their shanty. What this evil wants and takes almost destroys this family. They battle to keep their faith and stay strong in the face of a heartbreaking tragedy and bring a murderer to justice. Excerpt from Chapter one: The sun had moved into the late morning sky. There was too much light to suit him now and besides hunger pains were bringing to memory the hot-water cornbread and steaming pot of vegetable soup Ellie would have waiting. So he turned back, making a wide circle around the big cypress tree that had become his stopping point. Ev had taken only a few steps when something caught his eye.. behind a fallen tree log. Blue paper? No. Blue fabric, fluttering in the light breeze. He moved closer.. why was a doll thrown away here in the swamp? Bending , he peered over the fallen log. "Oh, my God in heaven!" He choked. Next to the log lay a small brown child. Her blue flowered dress caught on the bark of the rotting tree, waved flag-like, as if marking her death site.