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Dial Press
June 2015
On Sale: June 9, 2015
Featuring: Layla Beck; Willa
512 pages
ISBN: 0385342942
EAN: 9780385342940
Kindle: B00P5557US
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction
In the summer of 1938, Layla Beck's father, a United States
senator, cuts off her allowance and demands that she find
employment on the Federal Writers' Project, a New Deal jobs
program. Within days, Layla finds herself far from her
accustomed social whirl, assigned to cover the history of
the remote mill town of Macedonia, West Virginia, and
destined, in her opinion, to go completely mad with
boredom. But once she secures a room in the home of the
unconventional Romeyn family, she is drawn into their
complex world and soon discovers that the truth of the town
is entangled in the thorny past of the Romeyn dynasty. At the Romeyn house, twelve-year-old Willa is desperate to
learn everything in her quest to acquire her favorite
virtues of ferocity and devotion—a search that leads her
into a thicket of mysteries, including the questionable
business that occupies her charismatic father and the
reason her adored aunt Jottie remains unmarried. Layla's
arrival strikes a match to the family veneer, bringing to
light buried secrets that will tell a new tale about the
Romeyns. As Willa peels back the layers of her family's
past, and Layla delves deeper into town legend, everyone
involved is transformed—and their personal histories
completely rewritten.
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