Well, it has been nine years and Karon visits The Early Show to celebrate the last novel in the series, "Light from Heaven." Click here to read an excerpt.

Light From Heaven. By Jan Karon. ... Heaven knows, there was hardly anything to do on the farm but rest, read, and walk four dogs; he'd scarcely struck a lick at a snake since arriving in mid-January.

Then there’s the now-deceased Miss Sadie, who gently haunts Light from Heaven because she hid $9,000 somewhere in her 1958 Plymouth before she died. In addition to Agnes, new characters include Jubal ...