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Deep in the heat and silence of rural Tennessee, down an untraveled road, sits the forgotten town of Three Summers. Mere miles away, on an overgrown river island, stands the house that once presided over the grand plantation of Angel's Landing, moss-draped, decrepit. Waiting.
Failing crime writer Bradley Ellison and former prostitute Missy Holiday are drawn to this place, fleeing a world turned against them. For Brad, it is work—he must find a compelling story before the true-crime magazine he writes for judges him expendable. For Missy, it is recuperation—four years at "the club" have left her drained.
But the price of peace is high, and soon Brad and Missy discover that something hides behind the quiet. Something moves in the night. Something that manifests itself in bizarre symbols and disturbing funeral rites. Something that twists back through time and clings in the dust of the ancient house. A presence they must uncover before their own past catches up with them.
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- ISBN: 9781947848887
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- ISBN: 9781947848887
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Reviews
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March 19, 2021
While searching for a suitably off-the-beaten path spot to end his life, struggling journalist Brad uncovers something that he hopes will help him write a career-saving story for the true-crime magazine he works for. Missy is an exhausted former sex worker looking for her own sort of redemption. They end up in the decrepit former plantation house on Angel's Landing in the forgotten town of Three Summers, TN. Both characters have terrifying experiences there; for instance, Brad watches the townspeople go about their business--going to church, to school, to the gas station--in the dead of night rather than during normal business hours. Missy and Brad struggle to find a way for all of it to make sense, and readers might too. But the uncertainty--whom to trust; what is real--accompanied by visceral terror that one can practically see, smell, and feel, will keep readers turning the pages. VERDICT Buoyed by confident prose and cinematic imagery, this Southern gothic slow burn rewards close attention and will be a sure hit for fans of folklore and the occult.--Emily Vinci, Schaumburg Twp. Dist. Lib., IL
Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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July 1, 2021
An ominous note from the editor of a true crime magazine opens the novel, warning readers that what we are about to read is the last article by Bradley Ellison, sent moments before his death, a fantastic tale that cannot be verified. The story centers around the isolated town of Three Summers, Tennessee, with its haunted history of murder and monsters, a place with menacing ties to the earth itself. The mysteries unravel like a jigsaw puzzle built without a guide. There are multiple story lines that feature similar characters, told in eerily overlapping time frames; this layering intensifies the disorientation and ratchets up the unease. The pace is methodical enough to enhance the atmosphere, while the snippets of Bradley's article, slowly unveiled as prefaces to each chapter, encourage the reader to fit the pieces into place, albeit with fear of what the final picture will reveal. Terrifyingly realistic, yet clearly supernatural, and fueled by generations of secrets, this promising debut is reminiscent of modern Southern Gothics as varied as Andy Davidson's The Boatman's Daughter (2020), Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied Sing (2017), and Karen Russell's Swamplandia! (2011).COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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