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"Set in a small coal-mining town, a debut novel full of secrets, love, betrayal, and suspicious accidents, where Catholicism casts a long shadow and two courageous women make choices that will challenge ... moral convictions"--Amazon.com.Welcome to Verra, a town nestled into the hillsides of West Virginia. Myrthen is playing tug-of-war with her twin, when her sister is killed. Unable to accept her own guilt, Myrthen excludes herself from all forms of friendship and affection and begins a twisted, haunted life dedicated to God. Meanwhile, her neighbor Alta Krol longs to be an artist even as her days are taken up caring for her widowed father and siblings. Everything changes when Myrthen marries the man Alta loves. Fourteen years later, as Verra's long-buried secrets are exposed, it's an irresistible state of affairs for Myrthen and her obsession with salvation. Read more...
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Chris Cander is the USA TODAY bestselling author of THE WEIGHT OF A PIANO, which the New York Times called, "immense, intense and imaginative;" WHISPER HOLLOW, named an Indie Next Great Read; and 11 STORIES, winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards for fiction. She also wrote the children's picture book THE WORD BURGLAR, and the Audible Originals "Eddies" and "Grieving Conversations." Her new novel, A GRACIOUS NEIGHBOR, arrives fall 2022. Cander's fiction has been published in twelve languages. A former fitness competitor and model, she currently holds a 4th dan in taekwondo and is a certified women's defensive tactics instructor. She lives in Houston with her husband and two children. Learn more at www.chriscander.com.
