New Release

That Old Yellow Light

A Southern story about home, memory, and the impossible choice between the life you can hold and the one laid at your feet on a silver platter.

Cover of That Old Yellow Light by Wayne Stroud
Cover of That Old Yellow Light

The Book

That Old Yellow Light

Penny Chesney left home at fifteen. She learned quickly how the world worked—how to build something bigger, something better, something that made sense.

Now she's back. And everything she thought she understood doesn't feel as certain as it used to.

One man offers her a life most people never even get to see—a world of quiet wealth, effortless beauty, and a future where every problem has already been solved before it begins. He lays Georgia at her feet on a silver platter.

The other offers her nothing she can hold. No plans. No promises. No easy answers. Just the same steady presence she's always known. And the moon.

Does she choose a life of dazzling luxury… or will she take the moon over Georgia?

Southern Fiction · ISBN 978-1-963287-01-5

Portrait of author Wayne Stroud

About the Author

Wayne Stroud

Wayne Stroud writes Southern fiction rooted in the quiet places where ordinary lives meet impossible choices. His stories linger on front porches and back roads, on the people we leave behind and the ones who wait for us to come home.

That Old Yellow Light is his debut novel—the first of more stories to come. When he isn't writing, Wayne can be found chasing the same warm light that runs through every page he writes.

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