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St. Martin's Press
January 2007
On Sale: January 9, 2007
224 pages
ISBN: 0312358350
EAN: 9780312358358
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Romance Contemporary
Worldly, educated and well-traveled, Sand Williams returns to her hometown along the beautiful Seven Point River for some much needed respite. She shares nothing in common with her fundamentalist and judgmental neighbor, Norah Everston, who calls upon Sand to look after her son and step-daughter while she and her husband are out of town. Sand checks in on the two teenagers to find that the Everston's eighteen- year-old daughter has been brutally murdered. Separated by conflicting ideologies, the lives of Sand and Norah are soon intertwined as they struggle to cope with the overwhelming forces of tragedy and angst. Patti Callahan, the sole female in the sheriff's department, is also deeply affected by Dahlia's murder. As the first deputy to arrive on the scene, Patti joins Sand and Norah in the whirlwind of emotional and personal exploration spurned by these tragic events. As head of the Howell County Stop Violence Against Women Task Force, Katie Estill crossed paths with the father of the murdered girl whose story inspired DAHLIA'S GONE. It is from this brief encounter that the idea of the novel was born. Capturing the awe-inspiring beauty of a river landscape in the Ozarks and the intricacies of small town southern life, Estill's latest novel is an intimate portrait of a community forever changed by disaster.
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