A compelling and evocative novel with an unsettling question at its
heart, The Golden Hour from acclaimed author T. Greenwood explores the
power of art to connect, to heal, and to reveal...
On a spring afternoon long ago, thirteen-year-old Wyn Davies took a
shortcut through the woods in her New Hampshire hometown and became a
cautionary tale. Now, twenty years later, she lives in New York, on the
opposite side of a duplex from her ex, with their four-year-old daughter
shuttling between them. Wyn makes her living painting commissioned
canvases of birch trees to match her clients' furnishings. But the
nagging sense that she has sold her artistic soul is soon eclipsed by a
greater fear. Robby Rousseau, who has spent the past two decades in
prison for a terrible crime against her, may be released based on new
DNA evidence--unless Wyn breaks her silence about that afternoon.
To clear her head, refocus her painting, and escape an even more present
threat, Wyn agrees to be temporary caretaker for a friend's new property
on a remote Maine island. The house has been empty for years, and in the
basement Wyn discovers a box of film canisters labeled "Epitaphs and
Prophecies." Like time capsules, the photographs help her piece together
the life of the house's former owner, an artistic young mother, much
like Wyn. But there is a mystery behind the images too, and unraveling
it will force Wyn to finally confront what happened in those woods--and
perhaps escape them at last.
