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Vacancy joins The Dust Series! Read all the latest plaudits and praise the second book in The Dust Series, Vacancy, is garnering, from reviews to interviews.

Vacancy Is Honored by Literary Titan with The Gold Book Award for Fiction. In Vacancy, a struggling single mother and a suspicious widow both have a habit of hiding from hard truths, until a brutal tragedy in an unforgiving Texas town forces them to face what they’re hiding, and fill the vacancy in their own hearts. New fiction in The Dust Series. Based on a true story.

How I wrote a historically accurate, wickedly fictional novel by gathering a dozen years of Texas research—on wheels, by click, and by page

Kay Smith-Blum's debut, TANGLES, spans two timelines and two star-crossed narrators in the dark shadow of radiation contamination, during th