Published in 2001, CAROLINA is a collection of four Christian Romance novelettes published between 1996 and 1999. In each story a gutsy young, unmarried woman faces a crisis too big for herself alone. God she can count on. Less reliable are various romantically available males, female friends or rivals and sometimes overly detached family members. By the end of each of these well plotted morality tales, enough people in a position to do harm swing behind the heroine's determination to make the best of a bad situation and problems are largely resolved through a regrouping of small group interactions.

-- Backdrop of the four short novels is Asheville, North Carolina and environs.  Mrs Lehman’s describes mountains, storms and vistas of the Southern Appalachians in ways which suggest to all the major characters, male and female, that nature and nature’s God are speaking to them personally.

--MOUNTAIN MAN unfolds a family feud about property and deception rooted in the ecological tragedy of the American chestnut tree blight. 

--SMOKY MOUNTAIN SUNRISE tells of a pretended romance which leads Rae to work one summer in a camp for boys. 

--In CALL OF THE MOUNTAIN, Beth pleges to become a single mother. For if she does not agree in advance to adopt her wayward sister’s unborn child, that child will be aborted. 

--WHITER THAN SNOW tells what happens high on a mountain when severely injured Jennifer is trapped alone during the blizzard of the century. Her only hope for surviving lies with Rick, the guilt driven volunteer fireman, whose reckless driving had caused her injuries. 

--CAROLINA is about lusty men and women whose flesh wars with their spirits. Every  tale supplies material apt for a television mini-series or opera in the spirit of WEST SIDE STORY or AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS.
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