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The Virgin of Small Plains
Nancy Pickard
Ballantine
April 2006
On Sale: April 18, 2006
288 pages
ISBN: 0345470990
EAN: 9780345470997
Hardcover
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Mystery | Thriller Psychological
Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a
deadly blizzard, eighteen-year-old Rex Shellenberger scours
his father's pasture, looking for helpless newborn calves.
Then he makes a shocking discovery: the naked, frozen body
of a teenage girl, her skin as white as the snow around
her. Even dead, she is the most beautiful girl he's ever
seen. It is a moment that will forever change his life and
the lives of everyone around him. The mysterious dead girl -
the "Virgin of Small Plains" - inspires local reverence:
In the two decades following her death, strange miracles
visit those who faithfully tend to her grave; some even
believe that her spirit can cure deadly illnesses. Slowly,
word of the legend spreads." "But what really happened in
that snow-covered field? Why did young Mitch Newquist
disappear the day after the Virgin's body was found,
leaving behind his distraught girlfriend, Abby Reynolds?
Why do the town's three most powerful men - Dr. Quentin
Reynolds, former sheriff Nathan Shellenberger, and Judge
Tom Newquist - all seem to be hiding the details of that
night?" Seventeen years later, when Mitch suddenly returns
to Small Plains, simmering tensions come to a head, ghosts
that had long slumbered whisper anew, and the secrets that
some wish would stay buried rise again from the grave of
the Virgin. Abby - never having resolved her feelings for
Mitch - is now determined to uncover exactly what happened
so many years ago to tear their lives apart.
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