Mitford, N.C., does not exist on any map of the United States — just in the gentle and warmhearted imagination of best-selling author Jan Karon. Fans of Karon's popular series about Episcopal ...

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Author Jan Karon’s made-up mountain town of Mitford has become as well-known in some circles as that other fictional North Carolina hamlet, Mayberry. There are similarities. Both are populated ...

Thus begins Jan Karon’s “Somewhere Safe With Somebody Good,” her first Mitford novel in almost a decade. Father Tim, the central character in the immensely popular series, is in a cranky mood.