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Ecco
September 2016
On Sale: September 6, 2016
256 pages
ISBN: 0062436317
EAN: 9780062436313
Kindle: B019C3WT68
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Fiction
New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash
demonstrates his superb narrative skills in this suspenseful
and evocative tale of two brothers whose lives are altered
irrevocably by the events of one long-ago summer—and one
bewitching young woman—and the secrets that could destroy
their lives. While swimming in a secluded creek on a hot Sunday in 1969,
sixteen-year-old Eugene and his older brother, Bill, meet
the entrancing Ligeia. A sexy, free-spirited redhead from
Daytona Beach banished to their small North Carolina town
until the fall, Ligeia will not only bewitch the two
brothers, but lure them into a struggle that reveals the
hidden differences in their natures. Drawn in by her raw sensuality and rebellious attitude,
Eugene falls deeper under her spell. Ligeia introduces him
to the thrills and pleasures of the counterculture movement,
then in its headiest moment. But just as the movement’s
youthful optimism turns dark elsewhere in the country that
summer, so does Eugene and Ligeia’s brief romance. Eugene
moves farther and farther away from his brother, the
cautious and dutiful Bill, and when Ligeia vanishes as
suddenly as she appeared, the growing rift between the two
brothers becomes immutable. Decades later, their relationship is still turbulent, and
the once close brothers now lead completely different lives.
Bill is a gifted and successful surgeon, a paragon of the
community, while Eugene, the town reprobate, is a failed
writer and determined alcoholic. When a shocking reminder of the past unexpectedly surfaces,
Eugene is plunged back into that fateful summer, and the
girl he cannot forget. The deeper he delves into his
memories, the closer he comes to finding the truth. But can
Eugene’s recollections be trusted? And will the truth set
him free and offer salvation . . . or destroy his damaged
life and everyone he loves?
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