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You can’t leave the past behind…As a child, Jessie Lockwood spent many hours helping with her mother Mariah’s research in the local woods of Deep Down, Kentucky. There she fell in love with the tiny Appalachian town. Now a PhD student, Jessie’s made her home elsewhere, even though it meant leaving Deep Down and her beloved mother – and Sheriff Drew Webb, the man she secretly loved.When Jessie is notified that her mother never returned from her last walk in the woods, she comes home to Deep Down – and to Drew. As Jessie and Drew race to find her mother, only two things make sense to Jessie. She will protect her family at any cost. And she can’t help falling desperately in love with Drew all over again…

A haunting and emotionally satisfying novel from a much-loved and critically acclaimed author, which weaves fairy tale and gritty realism together to dazzlingly effect.‘The Story Sisters’ charts the lives of three sisters – Elv, Claire and Meg. Each has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart’s desire, and a demon who will not let go.What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you?At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing, ‘The Story Sisters’ sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them.