Fowler's lucky 13th novel, a departure from her Agatha Award–winning Benni Harper series (Delectable Mountain
, etc.), offers a poignant tale of a family fractured by the secrets of the past. Ruby McGavin, grieving over the recent death of her husband, Cole, is shocked to discover that Cole lied to her about his family. They're not all dead, as he told her, but very much alive, and in his will, he has left her his share of the family ranch in California. Ruby heads to tiny Cardinal, Calif., with Cole's ashes, intent on selling her share of the ranch, but she quickly realizes that Cole had hidden many things from her. Cole's younger brother, Lucas, who has fled his life as a lawyer in San Francisco, has returned to Cardinal, where he scrapes out a life as a saddlemaker. Slowly Ruby and Lucas edge closer to the truth of a secret that haunts both their lives. Fowler, with her gift for drawing painfully real and credible characters, takes the reader along on an emotionally powerful ride. This could well be her breakout book. (May)
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Reviewed on: 03/20/2006
Release date: 05/01/2006
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 308 pages - 9780425207789
Open Ebook - 368 pages - 9781429535410
Peanut Press/Palm Reader - 368 pages - 9781429535427
Mass Market Paperbound - 351 pages - 9780425215784
Hardcover - 431 pages - 9781585477913