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The Virgin of Small Plains
Nancy Pickard
Ballantine Books
June 2007
On Sale: May 29, 2007
368 pages
ISBN: 0345471008
EAN: 9780345471000
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Suspense
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.
Three families and
three friends, their worlds inexorably altered in the course
of one night, must confront the ever-unfolding consequences
in award-winning author Nancy Pickard’s remarkable novel of
suspense. Wonderfully written and utterly absorbing, The
Virgin of Small Plains is about the loss of faith, trust,
and innocence . . . and the possibility of
redemption.
From the Hardcover edition.
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