The Transylvania Times -

Local award-winning authors G. Keith Parker and Leslie Parker Borhaug have released another novel from, and based in, Transylvania County. It weaves together historical figures and events during the most tense and divisive time in history, the Civil War and Reconstruction Era. "To Stand on Solid Ground's" story echoes the divisions felt in America today.

The conflicts the people face and deal with in the novel run parallel to the same divisions felt by Americans today relating to their communities, politics, society and even race.

Borhaug, who is an author under the pen name LB Tillit,...