Hi! I’m Chris Hough—though friends call me Zan. I’m a native Atlantan who’s spent the past 23 years in the city with my husband, Jon, and our two amazing sons, Reed and Nick. Storytelling is practically our family sport. Reed recently scored a double-book deal with Penguin Random House, and Nick can somehow make international shipping logistics sound like the punchline to a killer dinner-party anecdote.

Our book club meets the first Wednesday of the month at 5pm. Join us and explore the mystery genre through classic authors like Agatha Christie and more contemporary authors such as Riley Sager and Alice Feeney.

Jacqueline Barnow is a Southerner by way of the Midwest. Spending her summers as a teenager at the local library working, she found a love for romance novels reading Sandra Brown books and pretty much any Harlequin she could find. 

Woven Branches is a novella book series, and author G.L. Yancy’s unique take on the American soap opera. As we often invite folks to do in the South, pull up a chair, grab an ice-cold glass of sweet tea, and enjoy a heaping helping of Woven Branches ... your new guilty pleasure.