Howard Books
Featuring: Nicold Baart; Dr. Lucas Hudson
368 pages ISBN: 1439197369 EAN: 9781439197363 Kindle: B008J4RPQG Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Dr. Lucas Hudson is a doctor in the small town of Blackhawk,
Iowa, who is acting as medical examiner in the absence of
the usual coroner when he's called to the scene of what
appears to be an open and shut suicide. Before everyone can
sign off on the death, though, the body of a young woman is
unearthed from the barn floor just below the hanging body.
Lucas is having some really serious issues in his life and
in his marriage, but this discovery offers hope that things
can turn around for him and his wife.
Years before Lucas even knew about Blackhawk, Iowa, fourteen
year old Meg Painter met Dylan Reid, the new boy in town.
They became the closest of friends that summer before her
first year in high school. He made her feel things she never
had imagined she could. But Jess, her neighbor, was the
safest choice for her and he made his interest clear. Even
though Meg spent two years as Jess' girlfriend, she never
forgot Dylan or the way she had felt about him.
The choices that Meg made in her past collide head on with
Lucas in the present. The question is whether or not their
intersection of past and present will bring peace and
happiness to anyone.
It's hard to talk about SLEEPING IN EDEN without giving away
too much information. The various twists and turns in the
plot are what make it such a special and captivating read.
Suffice it to say that, from the first page, I was drawn
into the story of Lucas and Meg. It begins in the present
and then travels to the past to cover events that lead up to
the stunning climax of the story. While it took a while to
understand how these two very different stories related to
each other, once everything was explained, I was left slack
jawed.
SLEEPING IN EDEN is a great mystery and there's definitely
an element of suspense. I became quite involved in the
fictional lives of these characters and hoped that all would
end well. Filled with bittersweet events, I found myself
moving from concern to hopefulness to an ending of happiness
and sadness intertwined.
Well written with three dimensional characters that you'll
come to love and, possibly, hate, along the way, SLEEPING IN
EDEN is one of those special books that you get lucky enough
to be a part of and will be grateful that you had the
opportunity.
The lives of a middle-aged doctor and a love-struck young
woman intersect across time in Sleeping in Eden, Nicole
Baart's haunting novel about love, jealousy, and the
boundaries between loyalty and truth.On a chilly morning in
the Northwest Iowa town of Blackhawk, Dr. Lucas Hudson is
filling in for the vacationing coroner on a seemingly
open-and-shut suicide case. His own life is crumbling around
him, but when he unearths the body of a woman buried in the
barn floor beneath the hanging corpse, he realizes this
terrible discovery could change everything. Lucas is almost
certain the remains belong to Angela Sparks, the missing
daughter of the man whose lifeless body dangles from a rope
above.
When Angela went missing years earlier, he and his wife
never really believed she was just another teenage runaway.
Fueled by passion, Lucas resolves to uncover the details of
Angela's suspected death, to bring some closure to their
small community and to his wife. But his obsession may not
be able to fix what is broken, and Lucas may be chasing
shadows... Years before Lucas ever set foot in Blackhawk,
Meg Painter met Dylan Reid. It was the summer before high
school and the two quickly became inseparable. Although
Jess, Meg's older neighbor, was the safe choice, she
couldn't let go of Dylan and the history they shared no
matter how hard she tried.
Caught in a web of jealousy and deceit that spiraled out of
control, Meg's choices in the past ultimately collide with
Lucas's investigation in the present, weaving together a
taut story of unspoken secrets and the raw, complex passions
of innocence lost
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