A Place to Land

ISBN: 0785232699

Author: Denton, Lauren K.

Condition: Used

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 theyve built.Violet Figg and her sister Trudy have lived a quiet life in Sugar Bend, Alabama, since a night forty years ago that stole Trudys voice and cemented Violets role as her sisters 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 shes 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 theyve 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 womens fiction Stand-alone novel Includes discussion questions for book clubs