Two sisters run an art shop in a quiet town--until a boat rises in the
local river and their past threatens to ruin everything they've built.
Violet Figg and her sister Trudy have lived a quiet life in Sugar Bend,
Alabama, since a night forty years ago that stole Trudy's voice and
cemented Violet's role as her sister's fierce and loyal protector. Now
Trudy spends her days making sculptures from found objects and speaking
through notes written on scraps of paper, while Violet runs their art
shop, monitors bird activity up and down the water, and tries not to
think of the one great love she gave up to keep her sister safe.
Eighteen-year-old Maya knows where everyone else belongs, but she's been
searching for her own place since her grandmother died seven years ago.
Moving in and out of strangers' houses has left her exhausted. After
seeing a flyer on a gas station window for a place called Sugar Bend,
Maya chooses to follow the strange pull she feels and finds herself on
the doorstep of an art shop called Two Sisters.
When a boat rises to the surface of Little River in the middle of the
night, the present and no-longer-buried past collide, and the future
becomes uncertain for Maya, Violet, and Trudy. As history creeps
continuously closer to the present and old secrets come to light, the
sisters must decide to face the truth of what happened that night forty
years ago, or risk losing each other and those they've come to love.
USA TODAY bestselling author Lauren K. Denton delivers another
distinctly Southern story that shimmers with beauty and possibility.
"Denton is a masterful storyteller who makes magic on every perfect
page." --Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of
The Wedding Veil
- Full-length Southern women's fiction
- Stand-alone novel
- Includes discussion questions for book clubs
