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.
Now on Amazon Kindle Paperback coming soon
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 the kind of 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?
Available now as an eBook on Amazon Kindle Direct. Paperback edition coming soon.
Praise & Promise
“Some choices can't be explained. Only lived.”
— from That Old Yellow Light
What readers are saying
“A luminous debut. Stroud writes the South the way it actually feels at dusk—warm, aching, and impossible to leave. He lays Georgia at the reader's feet on a silver platter, and you'll never want to give it back.”
“Penny Chesney is caught between two lives—and two men who have done nothing wrong—and somehow Stroud makes that the most unbearable suspense of all. The hardest question there is, asked from a porch swing.”
“Tender without being soft, romantic without being tidy. By the last page I understood exactly why a person might take the moon over Georgia.”
“That old yellow porch light glows on every page. A gorgeous meditation on home and the people we choose to sit beside in the dark. Your next favorite book.”
…or, will she take the moon over Georgia?
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