“Cedar Branch has it all, a quaint and quirky town full of delightful characters. They’ll have you smiling one moment and shedding tears the next. I can’t wait to revisit!” — Heather Burch, bestselling author of One Lavender Ribbon and the Roads to River Rock series
“From page one, Brenda Bevan Remmes steals your heart with her writing. Home to Cedar Branch has love, intrigue, and life all tangled up together in a heartwarming story that proves love can truly conquer all.” — Carolyn Brown, New York Times bestselling author of The Ladies Room and The Wedding Pearls
“Brenda Bevan Remmes plops you smack dab in the middle of Cedar Branch as if part of the drama of everyday life and surrounds you with the humor, tension, and compassion of her richly developed, iconic characters that get under your skin, flow to your heart, and land in your soul.” — James Marshall Case, producer/actor
“Set against a backdrop of the Quaker faith, Remmes’s novel both thrills and enlightens the reader from its raucous beginning to a nail-biting conclusion. As Remmes’s character, Teensy, might say, Home to Cedar Branch is ‘as smooth as the first swallow of a good bourbon.’” — Bob Strother, author of Burning Time
“From her witty dedication until the quiet closing of elevator doors on final pages, Brenda Bevan Remmes welcomes us back to Cedar Branch and the Quaker Café with the humor, suspense, and deft touch required of Southern storytellers. Sometimes an author’s second novel is a disappointment, but Remmes has written a sequel that surpasses her first.” — Kimberlyn Blum-Hyclak, author of In the Garden of Life and Death
“What a way to enter the playworld! Crash!-by falling through the skylight! Quickly comedy is launched into tragedy, passion and murderous revenge. This is a playworld of local color which leans back toward the nineteeth-century roots of American realism in southwest humor, which often shaded into the Gothic. Note the appearance of the root doctor Ata who practices West African juju with heart dirt, chicken blood and silver. The scenes in Shakespeare-quoting Judge Argyle Burgwyn’s court which send the arrow of justice toward the finale are rich in American humor. The process has its serious side, too, for the consequences of the trial are real. Add the Quaker spaces in the shifting playworld! Home to Cedar Branch is magic!” – Gill Holland, retired English Professor, Davidson College
“In her second novel, Remmes takes us back to the small North Carolina town featured in The Quaker Café. Although the novel begins with a darkly humorous scene, Remmes quickly moves into a tale of spousal abuse, murder, a plot for revenge and to top it off, the intervention of a group of faithful Quakers. Witty, wild, and thought-provoking: Home to Cedar Branch delivers. – Kathryn Etters Lovatt – South Carolina Arts Commission 2013 Prose Fellow