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Ballantine
August 2009
On Sale: July 28, 2009
240 pages
ISBN: 0345507312
EAN: 9780345507310
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
For ten years, Alexandra “Cat” Rucker has been on the run
from her past. With an endless supply of bourbon and a
series of meaningless jobs, Cat is struggling to forget
her Ohio hometown and the rural farmhouse she once called
home. But a sudden call from an old neighbor forces Cat to
return to the home and family she never intended to see
again. It seems that Cat’s mother is dead.
What Cat
finds at the old farmhouse is disturbing and confusing: a
suicide note, written on lilac stationery and neatly
sealed in a ziplock bag, that reads: Cat, He isn’t who
you think he is. Mom xxxooo
One note, ten words–
one for every year she has been gone–completely turns
Cat’s world upside down. Seeking to unravel the mystery of
her mother’s death, Cat must confront her past to discover
who “he” might be: her tyrannical, abusive father, now in
a coma after suffering a stroke? Her brother, Jared, named
after her mother’s true love (who is also her father’s
best friend)? The town coroner, Andrew Reilly, who seems
to have known Cat’s mother long before she landed on a
slab in his morgue? Or Addison Watkins, Cat’s first and
only love?
The closer Cat gets to the truth, the
harder it is for her to repress the memory and the impact
of the events that sent her away so many years ago.
Taut, gripping, and edgy, The Last Bridge
is an intense novel of family secrets, darkest
impulses, and deep-seated love. Teri Coyne has created a
stunning tapestry of pain and passion where past and
present are seamlessly interwoven to tell a story that
sears and warms in equal measure.
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