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Also by Melissa Payne:

A Light in the Forest, December 2022
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The Night of Many Endings, October 2021
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Memories in the Drift, December 2020
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A Light in the Forest
Melissa Payne

Lake Union Publishing
December 2022
On Sale: December 13, 2022
Featuring: Vega Jones
332 pages
ISBN: 1662503687
EAN: 9781662503689
Kindle: B09ZB6C7TK
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Women's Fiction | Thriller Domestic

From Melissa Payne, bestselling author of The Night of Many Endings, comes an emotional and suspenseful novel about the weight of secrets and the healing power of friends and family.

Vega Jones escapes an abusive relationship with nothing but her two-month-old baby and the van she grew up in. Her destination is a small Ohio town her late vagabond mother left years ago. It’s one full of nobodies, her mother warned. That makes it the ideal refuge for Vega to lie low, feel safe, and maybe learn more about a past her mother never spoke of.

Vega warms to the town and to new acquaintances like Heff, the young deputy and artist who prefers his yard art to actual policing, and empathetic Eve, a local farmer whose near-death experience gave her more than just her life back. But even in this welcoming community, there’s an undercurrent of something unsettled, talk of a tragedy that unfolded in the woods years ago, and a mystery connected to Vega in ways she couldn’t have anticipated.

As a mother on the run and following a path of mounting risks and illuminating secrets, Vega discovers that even during the darkest of times, there’s light in unexpected places.

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