In this "thrilling" love story (Lily King, author of Writers &
Lovers and Five Tuesdays in Winter), a teenage girl with a checkered
past finds instant chemistry with a mysterious stranger.
When sixteen-year-old Cindra Zoeller is sent to a reform camp in Montana
after being involved in an armed robbery, she is thrust into a world of
mountains and cowboys and prayers and miscreants and people from all
walks of life like she's never seen in suburban Massachusetts. At Camp
Challenge, she becomes transfixed by Lucky, a camp employee of
mysterious origin--an origin of constant speculation--and the chemistry
between them is instant, and profound. The pair escape together into the
wilderness to create an idyllic life far from the reach of the law,
living off their resounding love, Lucky's vast knowledge of the
wilderness, and a little help from some friends.
But they can run from the outside world for only so long, and the
consequences of their naïve fantasy of a future together--and
circumstances shaped by skin color--will keep them apart for decades.
Cindra gets trapped in a relationship, safely if stultifyingly suburban,
where she is both cosseted and controlled by a man who claims to be her
rescuer. But for Cindra, there will never be another Lucky, and she
dreams of one day finding him, the only man she's ever fully trusted,
her soulmate.
Page-turning, full of vivid characters, delicious suspense, and
ultimately joy, Lucky Turtle is a big- hearted, deeply engrossing love
story from one of our most entertaining and perceptive writers.
