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Kensington
February 2011
On Sale: January 25, 2011
Featuring: Reana Mae; Bethany
320 pages
ISBN: 0758253249
EAN: 9780758253248
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When seven-year-old Bethany meets her six-year-old cousin Reana Mae, itβs the beginning of a kinship of misfits that saves both from a bone-deep loneliness. Every summer, Bethany and her family leave Indianapolis for West Virginiaβs Coal River Valley. For Bethanyβs mother, the trips are a reminder of the coalmines and grinding poverty of her childhood, of a place sheβd hoped to escape. But her loving relatives, and Bethanyβs friendship with Reana Mae, keep them coming back. But as Bethany grows older, she realizes that life in this small, close-knit community is not as simple as she once thoughtβ¦that the riverside cabins that hold so much of her familyβs history also teem with scandalous whispersβ¦and that those closest to her harbor unimaginable secrets. Amid the dense woods and quiet beauty of the valley, these secrets are coming to light at last, with a force devastating enough to shatter lives, faith, and the bond that Bethany once thought would last forever. Spanning four decades, Sherri Wood Emmonsβ debut is a haunting, captivating novel about the unexpected, sometimes shocking events that thrust us into adulthoodβand the connections that keep us tethered, always, to our pasts.
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