Meet Donna Everhart, the author of “When the Jessamine Grows”, and a USA Today bestselling author. Set amidst the rugged beauty of rural 19th century North Carolina, “When the Jessamine Grows” is a story about love and loss, family and survival, standing by one’s values and finding the grace to believe in a better future.

Donna Everhart is a USA Today bestselling author known for vividly evoking challenges of the heart and the complex heritage of the American South in her acclaimed novels When the Jessamine Grows, The Saints of Swallow Hill, The Moonshiner’s Daughter, The Forgiving Kind, The Road to Bittersweet, and The Education of Dixie Dupree. She is the recipient of the prestigious SELA Outstanding Southeastern Author Award from the Southeastern Library Association and her novels have received a SIBA Okra Pick, an Indie Next Pick, and two Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books selections. Born and raised in Raleigh, she has stayed close to her hometown for much of her life and now lives just an hour away in Dunn, North Carolina.

The author talk will be followed by a question and answer session and a book signing.

This afternoon author event is free and open to the public.