Burning Marguerite
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A haunting weave of lives secrets and memo-riesa powerful work of psychological suspense and emotional intensity. Waking to the chill of a snow-cloaked morning carpenter James Jack Wright finds ninety-four-year-old Marguerite Deo lying dead in the woods outside his cabin. As he confronts the mystery of her deathwhy would Marguerite his Tante since his infancy walk out into the cold winter night?an unexpected tale unfolds moving from the present back to James Jacks childhood to New Orleans during the Depression and World War II and finally to a windswept New England island at the turn of the century. At the heart of the story are a forbidden love a violent crime kept secret for years and above all Marguerites relationship with a little boy named James Jack a bond that deepens after a terrible accident changes both their lives forever. Burning Marguerite is a debut novel of rare depth and artistry.
