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William Morrow
October 2014
On Sale: October 14, 2014
Featuring: Sam McAlister; Ollie McAlister
ISBN: 0062326597
EAN: 9780062326591
Kindle: B00HYMCJ6A
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Full of emotion and suspense, Crooked River is an inventive
and atmospheric story about family and friendship, good and
evil, secrets and lies, grief and forgiveness Where should I start? With Mom's funeral? Or a week earlier
on the Fourth of July, the day she died? Or should I skip
all that stuff and get straight to the part where Ollie and
I just wanted to go swimming and pretend our lives were
ordinary again, but when we got down to the river we found
another dead woman instead? Still grieving over the sudden death of their mother,
fifteen-year-old Sam McAlister and her ten-year-old sister,
Ollie, move from the comforts of Eugene to rural Oregon to
live in a meadow in a teepee under the stars with Bear,
their reclusive beekeeper father. But soon after they arrive
in Terrebone, a young woman is found dead floating in
Crooked River and the police arrest their eccentric father
for the murder. He is not evil. I am not good. We are the same: broken and put back together again. Sam knows that Bear is not a killer, even though the
evidence points to his guilt—including information that she
and Ollie have uncovered. Filled with remorse and refusing
to accept that her father could have hurt anyone, Sam
embarks on a desperate hunt to save him and keep her damaged
family together. They had mysteriously lost Bear once before
and Sam is terrified they will lose him again. Only this
time they won't ever get him back. She needs Ollie to help
her, but Ollie has not spoken a word since their mother's death. I see things no one else does. I see them there and wish I didn't. I want to tell and I can't. Ollie, too, knows that Bear is innocent. The Shimmering have
told her so. One followed her home from her mom's funeral
and continues to hover, a spectrum of colors—pink and rose
red, sky blue and honey gold. Now another, coiled and
hissing, is following Sam. Both spirits warn Ollie: the real
killer is out there, waiting. Somehow, she must warn her
sister. But Ollie worries that if she tries to speak—even to
write—the Shimmering will slip inside her, take control, and
never leave. Sam and Ollie must find the truth quickly—a search that will
lead them to unexpected secrets and terrible lies—because
the danger is closer to them than either girl knows. Told in Sam's and Ollie's vibrant voices, Crooked River is a
family story, a coming-of-age story, a ghost story, and a
psychological mystery as haunting as the best Southern
gothic fiction that will touch your heart and grip you until
the final page.
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