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August 2017
On Sale: July 25, 2017
272 pages
ISBN: 0062436325
EAN: 9780062436320
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Fiction Women's Fiction
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, Ligeia entrances the brothers, especially Eugene, who is drawn to her raw sensuality and rebellious attitude. Eugene begins to move 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, the once close brothers now lead completely different lives. Bill is a gifted and successful surgeon, and 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 Eugene delves into his memories, the closer he comes to finding the truth. But can Eugeneβs recollections be trusted? And will the truth set him free and offer salvation . . . or destroy his damaged life and everyone he loves? βThe Risen is an important novelβand an intriguing oneβ from one of our master storytellers. In its pages, the past rises up, haunting and chiding, demanding answers of us all.β βThe News & Observer
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