Here's how tight Nikki Lee's family is: She convinced her mother and three adult children to move last fall from a lifetime in Cincinnati to the unknown of Asheville. "One of my clients years ago had always told me that I'd connect well in Asheville because I seemed like the hippie type, and I am," Lee recalled. "We just visited and we fell in love with the mountains." Like many who move to this area, Lee arrived without much of a plan. What she did have was her faith--her unwavering compass throughout her life. Around 2012, that compass pointed her to sell her thriving hair salon and devote herself to writing. She has since self-published nine books of uplifting guidance, founded a support agency for single mothers in poverty and built a consulting business for entrepreneurs. She hosts a monthly podcast based on her writings and she has written a play drawn from the stories of two single black mothers and their teenaged sons. That play, titled "Savagery," gets a staged reading June 18

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