The Day of Small Things: A Novel (The Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mysteries)

About this book

A night of reckoning . . . A dawn of danger . . . In the misty folds of Appalachia the girl they call Least grows up cursed by her mothers cruelty and blessed by her neglect. Deemed unfit to join the outside world Least turns to the wisdom of the land to voices she alone can hear to legends left by native Indians and to the arts of divination and healing. But the time comes when Least has to choose between a doting suitor and her childhood magic between his church and her spirits. Now as her life enters its final chapter her world has been invaded by a violent criminal with a chilling plan. To stop him from committing an unspeakable crimeand to free an innocent childthe woman who was once Least must break long-held promises draw on long-buried powers and face a darkness no one else can even see.