by Lori Roy
First published 2015
Annie Holleran crosses forbidden ground on a Kentucky night in 1952. She runs through lavender fields toward the Baines property, where her family has been banned for twenty years since Joseph Carl died. Annie reaches the well just as she turns sixteen. She peers into the dark water, hoping to glimpse her future in the moonlight reflection. Instead, she sees a body floating below. When morning comes and others discover what lies in the well, Annie faces questions she cannot easily answer. The past her family tried to bury resurfaces. Annie must confront secrets that have shaped her life and explain how she knew to look in that particular place at that exact moment.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, mystery, family-drama
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: secrets, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Kentucky, Baines Property
Period: 1952
460 pages · Hardcover · Wheeler Publishing