[A] twisty, riveting ride. --People Magazine, People Pick
**
A community's past sins rise to the surface in New York Times
bestselling author Diane Chamberlain's The Last House on the Street
when two women, a generation apart, find themselves bound by tragedy and
an unsolved, decades-old mystery.**
1965
Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill, North Carolina, Ellie
Hockley was raised to be a certain type of proper Southern lady.
Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn't
as committed to her expected future as her family believes. She's chosen
to spend her summer break as a volunteer helping to register black
voters. But as Ellie follows her ideals fighting for the civil rights of
the marginalized, her scandalized parents scorn her efforts, and her
neighbors reveal their prejudices. And when she loses her heart to a
fellow volunteer, Ellie discovers the frightening true nature of the
people living in Round Hill.
2010
Architect Kayla Carter and her husband designed a beautiful house for
themselves in Round Hill's new development, Shadow Ridge Estates. It was
supposed to be a home where they could raise their three-year-old
daughter and grow old together. Instead, it's the place where Kayla's
husband died in an accident--a fact known to a mysterious woman who
warns Kayla against moving in. The woods and lake behind the property
are reputed to be haunted, and the new home has been targeted by vandals
leaving threatening notes. And Kayla's neighbor Ellie Hockley is
harboring long buried secrets about the dark history of the land where
her house was built.
Two women. Two stories. Both on a collision course with the truth--no
matter what that truth may bring to light--in Diane Chamberlain's
riveting, powerful novel about the search for justice.
