Help me congratulate Wanda Morris on her new release – What You
Leave Behind. Here’s the blurb:
Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful,
haunting thriller following a lawyer who after the mysterious disappearance of
a local landowner and the death of his sister just months before, uncovers a
conspiracy that dates back to Reconstruction and persists in half the United
States today.
Deena
Wood’s life has fallen apart in the aftermath of losing her beloved mother, her
marriage, and her prestigious job at an Atlanta law firm. She needs what the
Geechee people of coastal Georgia call a “dayclean,” a fresh start.
She
returns to her childhood home in Brunswick, Georgia, to heal. But her return is
anything but the respite she thought it might be. To make peace with all her
loss, she often drives through the city. One day, she unwittingly finds herself
on the oceanfront property of a loner widower who is fighting to keep land that
has been in his family since the end of the Civil War. He threatens her and
warns her to never return. But shortly after, he disappears, and his very
expensive property is quickly put up for sale. Curious about what has happened
to the man, Deena digs into his disappearance and finds a family legacy at
risk. What starts out as a bit of curious snooping, turns into a deadly game of
illegal land grabs and property redevelopment in poor and rural communities
with dark and powerful forces at work.
Without
realizing it, Deena finds herself caught up in a nightmarish scheme that
threatens her community and her family. She’ll need help and finds it in a
close but unlikely source because she knows she must do whatever it takes to
stop the sinister forces at play before she becomes their next target.
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