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Lake Union Publishing
January 2019
On Sale: January 1, 2019
364 pages
ISBN: 1503904555
EAN: 9781503904552
Kindle: B07C227DVB
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
A girl emerges from the woods, starved, ill, and aloneβ¦and collapses. Suzanne Blakemore hurtles along the Blue Ridge Parkway, away from her overscheduled and completely normal life, and encounters the girl. As Suzanne rushes her to the hospital, she never imagines how the encounter will change herβa change she both fears and desperately needs. Suzanne has the perfect house, a successful husband, and a thriving family. But beneath the veneer of an ideal life, her daughter is rebelling, her son is withdrawing, her husband is oblivious to it all, and Suzanne is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. After her discovery of the ethereal sixteen-year-old who has never experienced civilization, Suzanne is compelled to invite Iris into her familyβs life and all its apparent privileges. But Iris has an independence, a love of solitude, and a discomfort with materialism that contrasts with everything the Blakemores stand forβqualities that awaken in Suzanne first a fascination, then a longing. Now Suzanne canβt help but wonder: Is she destined to save Iris, or is Iris the one who will save her?
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