In 1972, Dan Palmer is exiled by a jealous boss and reassigned to Knobby Hill, a quiet Appalachian town where he’s the lone telephone company employee—and to locals, simply “the telephone man.”
He expects isolation. Instead, he’s pulled into the lives of quirky townsfolk, including Abigail Pierce, a wealthy widow whose grip on reality—and fortune—is slipping. When Dan uncovers a plot to steal her estate, he must choose whether to intervene or walk away.
Wry, heartfelt, and steeped in Appalachian grit, The Telephone Man and the Widow’s Fortune is a story of quiet redemption, unexpected heroism, and the connections that matter most.
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Alan Anglyn writes with the heart of a Southern storyteller and the hands of a man who's done it all-from air traffic control to oyster boats, cotton mills to chimney sweeping. Raised in rural Georgia and now rooted in Kansas, he draws on a lifetime of odd jobs, eccentric characters, and quiet revelations to craft fiction that resonates
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