Blackbirch Woods

"At false dawn, Willis set the silent dove down among the fir branches. Then he sat back down and bowed his head to his knees, awaiting the agonizing moment when daybreak would again be denied him..."
Seven-year-old Violet Aubrey has no idea that the young man she meets in the woods at night is over two hundred years old. Years do not change him, but as Violet grows, so does her bond with him.
But Willis is trapped in the dark... will love be enough to bring them out of the woods?

Meredith DeVoe grew up in Connecticut and spent several years vagabonding around America before settling in Vermont, where she married Robert DeVoe and had two children before moving to Upstate New York, and then Africa as a missionary. She has also been a cook, sawmill worker, paperhanger, homeschool mom, dogsled driver, elementary music teacher and art teacher. She has a Master's in Curriculum and Teaching and currently is a school principal in Nigeria.