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\"\"<\/a> A
\nDiary’s House: Where True Love Endures<\/a><\/h1>\n

A Diary\u2019s House is about adventure, lost love, and the hope that dreams,
\neven those in the final years of life, can at last prevail. It is of a
\nyoung boy\u2019s attempt to become a man, the once-lost secrets of a diary, a
\nsweeping romance which transcends time and place. It is more than a boy\u2019s
\njourney into manhood, but the mysteries of so many lives unknowingly
\nintertwined, now brought together in a climatic ending; all from the
\nengrossing world embedded in a forgotten diary; a diary of a woman.<\/p>\n

Born in the vast and looming mountains of North Carolina during the 1870\u2019s,
\nLandon Hampshire always remembered the folklore and legendary tales his
\nfather told him during his early childhood; about the people of the Kituhwa
\n(Cherokee) and the birth of this tribal nation \u2013 an enchanting story he
\ncould never forget. Incorporating the aid of an eccentric old French
\ntrapper (old man Montague), Landon and his friends set out on an adventure,
\ntheir initial intention is to discover treasure and become men. But what
\nLandon will eventually come to discover is more than he ever bargained for.<\/p>\n

Landon didn’t realize his boyhood adventure would yield the incredible
\njourney he ultimately experiences – going down the mysterious and mystical
\nRandola River. At the base of the river is an island even more mysterious
\nthan the Randola itself.<\/p>\n

The island releases many of its mysterious, yet even many more are created
\nwhen Landon discovers, on the island, a diary of a young woman who lived
\nforty years prior during the 1830\u2019s (Trail of Tears). The diary entries are
\nhopeful, though haunting. It reveals, in intimate detail, the life and
\ndreams of this very special young girl who is turning into a woman of
\nbeauty and adventure, her love for a Cherokee boy, and the trials she will
\nultimately face. Her story unfolds through the reading of her diary, and
\nLandon suddenly finds himself caught up in a sweeping, empowering world of
\nre-invention and ultimate redemption.<\/p>\n

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C. David Murphy<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a writer; first and foremost. Anyone who reads my works will instantly
\nknow this. I have found no greater joy on this earth than to be close to
\nGod and nature; exploring the serenity of landscapes, waterfalls, epic
\nmountains, meadows and grasslands. To sit on those spots of earth and write
\nto where my imagination will take me yields a tremendous amount of peace
\nand serenity.. To create characters with true and genuine emotions, feel
\ntheir heartbeat thru every word I write; their trails, their hopes and
\nambitions; to breathe life into their eyes and see their soul become one
\nwith me and the reader is absolutely amazing. I simply love to create on
\nthat venue and canvas; to affect change in the lives of others. It is my
\nhope, when someone picks up my stories and reads the full weight of them,
\nthat somehow I have affected change in their lives, brought them to places
\nthey could never have imagined before, and moved them to believe in
\nhumanity again \u2013 to go out into the world and create \u2018goodwill towards all\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Diary\u2019s House is C David Murphy\u2019s first digitally published novel. He
\nis also the author of two Shakespearean-style genre plays In the Years
\nof the Ages<\/em> and Hildengrass<\/em>. He is currently finalizing his
\nnext novel, When Tomorrow Never Comes<\/em> and The Chronicles of Good
\nand Evil \u2013 Dracula\u2019s Lair \/ The Darkest Tower<\/em>, both due out later
\nthis year. Also, the sequel to A Diary\u2019s House is in the works \u2013 The
\nLong Journey Home<\/em> due out the first part of 2013.<\/p>\n

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