The Green Bird of Eastatoee

A Horsepasture Series Novel

By: J. R. Glenn

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Some valleys keep their secrets under water.

Eastatoee keeps them in plain sight.

When historian Mara Bell returns to Eastatoee Valley to finish her late father’s unfinished research, she expects old photographs, church records, and fading stories about a vanished green bird that once gave the valley its name.

Then a teenage boy disappears near a bridge after sending one strange photo.

A green bird painted on concrete.

A warning beneath it.

The valley remembers thieves.

The mark leads Mara into a hidden trail of church carvings, bootleg roads, old land records, buried ledgers, and a powerful family determined to decide which parts of history survive. But the deeper she digs, the more the mystery turns personal. Her father was not just researching Eastatoee’s past. He may have died because he got too close to it.

With Deputy Caleb Raines, sharp-tongued mechanic Eli Mercer, teacher Nora Talley, haunted mountain protector Boone Cutter, and elderly witness Odessa Crane, Mara follows the green bird from ScatterBrain Johnson’s forgotten roadside place to the old church, the hidden bridge, Twin Falls, and the guarded edge of Horsepasture country.

What they uncover is not a ghost story.

It is worse.

A woman who refused to sign away the truth. A judge who sold the law. A family that turned theft into legacy. And a valley that never forgot the names people tried to bury.

Atmospheric, emotional, and rooted in Appalachian suspense, The Green Bird of Eastatoee is a gripping Horsepasture Series novel about memory, courage, family shame, and the cost of telling the truth after generations of silence.