A sweeping turn-of-the-century Appalachian historical fiction novel charting a fierce legacy of folk medicine, modern science, and hidden maternal grief, tailored for historical fiction enthusiasts who love deep family dramas.
2026 Independent Press Award Winner - Historical Fiction
2024 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book 2025 Feathered Quill - Gold - Women's Fiction 2025 Reader Views Literary Awards - Gold - Hist Fic 2024 Incipere Awards - 1st Place Historical Fiction and 1st Place Women's Fiction Book Excellence Award Winner - Historical Fiction The Tyler R. Tichelaar Award for Best Historical Fiction BREW Fiction Book Excellence Award - Historical Fiction 2024 International Impact Book Awards Winner 2024 BookFest Awards - First Place Historical Fiction 2024 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Hist Fiction 2024 American Fiction Awards - Historical Fiction Finalist 2024 Readers’ Favorite Award - Gold in Historical Fiction International Firebird Book Award - Women’s Fiction CIBA Goethe Awards - Long Listed 2024 American Writing Awards - Hist Fiction Finalist 2024 Readers’ Choice - Silver Best Adult Book Author Shout Reader Ready Awards - Top Pick Zibby Awards - Best Book for the History Lover Literary Global Book Awards - Historical Fiction - Finalist Royal Dragonfly Book Award - 1st Place Historical Fiction 2024 HFC Book of the Year - Hawthorne US - Silver Booksshelf Writing Awards - Top 10 Finalist BREW Readers’ Choice Award 2024-2025 Finalist May Book of the Month - ManyBooks 2024 OnlineBookClub.org- Book of the Year - 1st Place HistFic The Difference Maker Award Global Spines Book Award Books for Humanity Global - Book of the Week Nat'l Indie Excellence Awards - Finalist Historical Fiction IAN Book of the Year Awards - Pre-20th Century Hist Fic Winner IAN Book of the Year Awards - Women's Fiction Finalist 2025 Global Literary Book Awards - Historical Fiction Winner |
An Appalachian granny woman. A daughter on a crusade. A granddaughter caught between the two.
Maggie McCoury, a generational healer woman, relies on family traditions, folklore, and beliefs gleaned from a local Cherokee tribe. Her daughter, Carrie Ann, believes her university training holds the answers. As they clash over the use of roots, herbs, and a dash of mountain magic versus the medicine available in the town’s apothecary, Josie Mae doesn’t know whom to follow. But what happens when neither family traditions nor science can save the ones you love most? Daughters of Green Mountain Gap weaves a compelling tale of Maggie, Carrie Ann, and Josie Mae, three generations of remarkable North Carolina women living at the turn of the twentieth century, shedding light on racism, fear of change, loss of traditions, and the intricate dynamics within a family. Author Teri M. Brown skillfully navigates the complexities of their lives, revealing that some questions are not as easy to answer as one might think. 
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Teri M. Brown is an award-winning American novelist, inspirational speaker, and podcast host dedicated to exploring the raw, unfiltered corners of the human experience. With a professional background rooted in business content writing and self-help publishing, she successfully transitioned into commercial fiction after winning the Anita Bloom Ornoff Award for Inspirational Short Story in 2017. Since then, her deeply empathetic, character-driven narratives have earned dozens of prestigious literary awards, establishing her as a powerful voice in contemporary and historical storytelling.
Known for her trademark ability to construct relatable, beautifully flawed characters, Brown focuses her narratives on universal themes of resilience, generational family conflict, and personal reinvention. Beyond the page, she is an avid adventurer who famously completed a 3,102-mile tandem bicycle trek across the United States to raise funds for charity—an experience that continues to fuel her creative philosophies on grit and marital teamwork. As the host of the Online for Authors podcast, she actively mentors aspiring writers, speaks at national literary events, and delivers motivational talks on overcoming midlife challenges and creative breakthroughs. When she isn’t writing or touring, Brown, who now lives at the NC coast, can be found traveling, mentoring within writer communities, playing word games, bumming on the beach, singing in the shower, hunting for bargains, or playing bridge. She continues to connect deeply with an expansive global audience by writing authentic, accessible prose that challenges readers to embrace both the humor and the hardships of life. |
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