By Tanya Carter
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A brutal attack on a local organic grocery store owner in the fictional town of Edison, Pennsylvania, sends shockwaves through the community and tests the bonds that hold the town together. Long-held secrets are exposed, testing the character of many of the town’s residents, including the new Chief of Police, Jake Keenan; Lucas Harmon, a veteran who has moved back home to find some elusive peace; Jackson Wagner, a neurodivergent teenager; and Piper Jones, a young woman who is trying to keep her family organic farm alive while shelving her dream of a career in music. Through shifting points of view, the novel presents a town in flux that nevertheless defends its essential humanity against the mayhem that threatens it.
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Tanya Carter
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
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It is fall in Edison, the season when the leaf peepers come to town and the Scout troops are hiking in the woods. Police Chief Jake Keenan is called to a grisly scene–an unidentified vagrant with his chest cavity torn open has been left in a shallow grave. Who is he, and who is leaving mutilated bodies in the Westmoreland Country countryside?
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Throw a savvy young CPA at a biker gang, and what do you get?
Janet Kent thinks her life is going pretty well. She has a job at a boutique financial services firm and has bought a house close enough that she can bike to work, saving money and getting a workout at the same time. But one night, her attempt to keep her younger brother out of trouble backfires and lands her in an abandoned house near Edison, PA with Thomas Lane, a member of a notorious biker gang. Janet has to keep her wits about her to stay one step ahead of some truly scary dudes in this modern-day retelling of the Scottish ballad of Tam Lin.
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