No Place to Hide

Zusatztext Praise for Susan Lewis   “A master storyteller.” —Diane Chamberlain   “This emotionally charged story keeps you at the edge of your seat.” —RT Book Reviews ! on Behind Closed Doors   “[A] moving and piquantly beautiful novel of friendship! family and the power of love.” — The Gazette (Blackpool! UK) ! on Never Say Goodbye Informationen zum Autor Susan Lewis Klappentext Perfect for readers of Jodi Picoult, Diane Chamberlain, and Heather Gudenkauf, No Place to Hide is an intimate and deeply moving story of one woman's desperate attempt to escape a troubled past-and the haunting mystery she's forced to confront. Fleeing her native England with her three-year-old daughter, Justine Cantrell gives herself a new name and a new life in America. In a quiet midwestern town on the shores of glittering Lake Maxinkuckee, Justine hopes to recapture the fleeting days of happiness in the long-ago summers she spent with her grandmother. And though her memories of that time are scant, Justine knows they must have shared a special bond. After all, the power of her grandmother's love has pulled her back to this haven in search of a new beginning. But fate has other plans. The more Justine gets to know the small town and its people, the more she realizes that her grandmother had her own devastating secrets-secrets that will soon threaten Justine just as surely as her own dark memories. Praise for Susan Lewis "A master storyteller."-Diane Chamberlain "This emotionally charged story keeps you at the edge of your seat."-RT Book Reviews, on Behind Closed Doors "[A] moving and piquantly beautiful novel of friendship, family and the power of love."-The Gazette (Blackpool, UK), on Never Say Goodbye Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more. Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all —Emily Dickinson Present Day—Culver, Indiana So this was what it was like beyond the corn-silk veil. Others called it a curtain, but she preferred veil. This allowed for a more dreamlike connection between the blue skies and still waters of this hauntingly beautiful town, and the world out there, filled with cornfields, highways, cities, oceans—the world, the family, she’d left behind. To get here she’d flown through storms and time zones, driven for mile after mile across vast swaths of farmland, forests, and yet more farmland, taking perfectly straight roads through the heart of it all. She’d passed poor and jumbled communities, stopped in flashy highway oases, spotted birds of prey swooping and soaring Icarus-like to the sun, and all the time she’d wondered what kind of a place she was heading toward. It wasn’t anything like she’d expected. It was a town of many contrasts, hidden stories, troubled history, settled on a lake that glistened like a lost jewel in the middle of nowhere. It was the second week of September now. Summer was officially over, though the sun continued to warm the immaculate streets, and flowers bloomed as eagerly as the birds sang. The tourists who’d swelled the population to many times its normal size throughout the season had vanished with Labor Day, leaving the place as tranquil, as perfect, as a photograph, and for long moments at a time as still. Justine Cantrell was standing at the edge of Lake Maxinkuckee, her bare feet sinking into gritty sand, her fine, honey-colored curls bobbing on a wayward breeze. The sunlight was so bright on the water that she had to narrow her green eyes to peer across to the opposite shore, perhaps two miles distant. The magnificent multimillion-dollar mansions nestling among the greenery wer...

Product details

• Authors: Susan Lewis
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.07.2015
• EAN: 9780345549556
• ISBN: 978-0-345-54955-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 22 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature