Red as a Rooster (Biscuit McKee Mysteries, #8)

No-one has ever known why the original Martins settled in a dead-end valley that is so difficult to find. When a set of two-hundred-year-old diaries are found in the bottom of a trunk, the mysterious history of Martinsville - all of it based on a lie - begins to come to life!

When the biggest ice storm of the century hits Martinsville, Georgia and knocks out all the power, Biscuit and Bob's huge old house with its wood-burning stove becomes a shelter where many of their friends take refuge....