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Cabin #1
The Cabin: Misery on the Mountain
Tuesday and Annabelle lived in the same state but in two different worlds. Tuesday, educated and independent, lives in the city; Annabelle knows only the harsh life of the mountain cabin, where she lives with her husband and two other women he has taken as wives.
Tuesday never knew that life could change so drastically in such a short time. When her car breaks down in sub-zero weather, she is faced with the choice between freezing or accepting help from a stranger. She chooses to trust the stranger named jacob.
Set in the beautiful but treacherous mountains of West Virginia The Cabin reveals the best and worst of human nature.
Tuesday never knew that life could change so drastically in such a short time. When her car breaks down in sub-zero weather, she is faced with the choice between freezing or accepting help from a stranger. She chooses to trust the stranger named jacob.
Set in the beautiful but treacherous mountains of West Virginia The Cabin reveals the best and worst of human nature.
- GenresMystery
272 pages, Paperback
First published December 10, 1999
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About the author
C.J. Henderson
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C.J. Henderson is a lover of mystery. She was blessed with a rich imagination that allows her to guide her readers, through many twists and turns of plot, deeply into her books. Many readers say they are able to see an actual movie transpiring in their mind as they read, so vivid are C.J.'s descriptions.
C.J. was raised in the small town of Farmington, West Virginia. High points in her early life were long trips to visit family who lived in remote areas of Appalachia. Over time, this environment became as familiar to her as her own modern home, and gradually she was introduced to many families whose homes in the outback were scattered miles apart.
A typical visit included hours of walking with a group of friends and cousins from house to house, looking for something to do. In those years, there were no televisions or telephones to keep the girls occupied. Just like young people everywhere, the group invented games and told tales. Just as she had observed her father doing for many years, C.J. kept her companions entertained for hours with her stories, in which she combined her own imagination with real-life events that played out in the isolated and poverty-stricken mountain culture. C.J. married just out of high school and lived on a farm, putting off her longing to write and attend college.
She raised two sons, and as they matured, she attended night school at Fairmont State College, and later at Parkersburg Community College. Years later her position as a land agent for Equitable Gas Company took her to even more remote and isolated regions where she had spent time as a child. She found nothing had changed. The impoverished still had no higher education available to them. Also, they lived without electricity, inside plumbing, telephones, television, and other conveniences. This renewed knowledge of their extraordinary lifestyle fueled her desire to create stories about that parallel world of people who live alongside us but remain separate at the same time.
After she resigned from her job with the utility company, C.J. moved to the West Coast and spent three years writing and setting the groundwork for the six novels in The Cabin Series. When she returned to West Virginia, she drew on her experience as a realtor and as a land acquisition agent to open her own real estate company, Pickett Fences Realty in Fairmont, WV. Although C.J. still operates her realty company, we are fortunate she is continuing to write and publish her novels.
C.J. Henderson is a lover of mystery. She was blessed with a rich imagination that allows her to guide her readers, through many twists and turns of plot, deeply into her books. Many readers say they are able to see an actual movie transpiring in their mind as they read, so vivid are C.J.'s descriptions.
C.J. was raised in the small town of Farmington, West Virginia. High points in her early life were long trips to visit family who lived in remote areas of Appalachia. Over time, this environment became as familiar to her as her own modern home, and gradually she was introduced to many families whose homes in the outback were scattered miles apart.
A typical visit included hours of walking with a group of friends and cousins from house to house, looking for something to do. In those years, there were no televisions or telephones to keep the girls occupied. Just like young people everywhere, the group invented games and told tales. Just as she had observed her father doing for many years, C.J. kept her companions entertained for hours with her stories, in which she combined her own imagination with real-life events that played out in the isolated and poverty-stricken mountain culture. C.J. married just out of high school and lived on a farm, putting off her longing to write and attend college.
She raised two sons, and as they matured, she attended night school at Fairmont State College, and later at Parkersburg Community College. Years later her position as a land agent for Equitable Gas Company took her to even more remote and isolated regions where she had spent time as a child. She found nothing had changed. The impoverished still had no higher education available to them. Also, they lived without electricity, inside plumbing, telephones, television, and other conveniences. This renewed knowledge of their extraordinary lifestyle fueled her desire to create stories about that parallel world of people who live alongside us but remain separate at the same time.
After she resigned from her job with the utility company, C.J. moved to the West Coast and spent three years writing and setting the groundwork for the six novels in The Cabin Series. When she returned to West Virginia, she drew on her experience as a realtor and as a land acquisition agent to open her own real estate company, Pickett Fences Realty in Fairmont, WV. Although C.J. still operates her realty company, we are fortunate she is continuing to write and publish her novels.
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March 20, 2009
The story could have been good, but was so poorly written that it was hard to get past that.
April 16, 2025
Great storyline, but with many errors.
Being a native West Virginian myself, the storyline of The Cabin is great! Perfect pace with just enough detail and twists to keep me engrossed. But, there are many errors (wrong character names) and too many paragraph beginnings with not enough obvious "break" that it's leading into a different character's point of view. I'm looking forward to reading book 2 to see what happens with Tuesday, Patty, Jacob, Cliff and the rest of the mountain gang!
Being a native West Virginian myself, the storyline of The Cabin is great! Perfect pace with just enough detail and twists to keep me engrossed. But, there are many errors (wrong character names) and too many paragraph beginnings with not enough obvious "break" that it's leading into a different character's point of view. I'm looking forward to reading book 2 to see what happens with Tuesday, Patty, Jacob, Cliff and the rest of the mountain gang!
January 23, 2025
Pretty dry read, very blunt and upsetting characters. Sheds a negative but sadly realistic light on the human condition and the "time-forgotten" areas that still really exist in WV. Very obviously set up to read the trilogy.
December 8, 2019
The way of the hills with backward, uneducated people victimized by wealth and their own ignorance and greed. The divide that exists in our nation.
September 23, 2021
Read in one day
I simply couldn’t put the book down! Great Book
set in the Hills Of West Virginia! Heartbreaking bc as a resident of WV, I know this really happened.
I simply couldn’t put the book down! Great Book
set in the Hills Of West Virginia! Heartbreaking bc as a resident of WV, I know this really happened.
February 16, 2023
Not my type of story
September 1, 2016
I found this book at a Goodwill in West Virginia when I was visiting my family this summer. The fact that the setting was in WV was enough for me to purchase it. It's filled with the kind of things we like to put onto the back burner and think/hope/pray that they really don't happen, yet we realize they do (or did) and could happen anywhere, not just in WV.
The story takes place in Wheeling, WV and Winding Ridge, WV and to me encompasses the worst of humanity...people who think they are smarter than most, and should be allowed to control others and dictate what happens in their lives. Women, children, infant and unborn baby trafficking...yep, it's all here.
The story takes place in Wheeling, WV and Winding Ridge, WV and to me encompasses the worst of humanity...people who think they are smarter than most, and should be allowed to control others and dictate what happens in their lives. Women, children, infant and unborn baby trafficking...yep, it's all here.
August 21, 2012
It has been a while since I read this book but I did enjoy it . I read a when I didn't have a computer and it was recommended to me by a bookstore employee because it was a local author. I live in western PA and the author is from WV. The author pictured is not the author. C J Henderson is a woman. Part of her story is that she was a real estate agent and started writing books while waiting for clients to show up for appointments. The doesn't read like it would be written by a man.
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April 22, 2008
Its written by a West Virginian, set in West Virginia and its screwed up, what's not to like.
January 26, 2011
I love this book! I may re-read it and then finish the rest of the series!
May 10, 2011
This book was light reading. Probably more of a young adult book. It is the first of a series. It was fast reading.
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