
A Light on the Veranda
Ciji Ware(Author)
Oliver-Heber Books (Publisher)
Published on 22. August 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
514 pages
978-1-64839-716-5 (ISBN)
Description
A SECRET MAY HOLD FOR A HUNDRED YEARS...
AND THEN IT'S TIME FOR THE PAST TO TAKE REVENGE...
Daphne Duvallon vowed never to return to the South years ago when she left her philandering fiance at the altar. Now a family wedding has called her to Natchez, Mississippi, a city as mysterious and compelling as the ghostly voices that haunt her dreams. From a time when the oldest settlement on the Mississippi was in its heyday and vast fortunes were made and lost, Daphne begins to uncover the secrets of an ancestor whose fate is somehow linked with her own. In a compelling and mesmerizing tale, now Daphne must right the wrongs of the past, or follow the same path into tragedy... Ciji Ware weaves a richly rewarding read brimming with local color, humor, sexual tension, environmental issues, and even a fun glimpse of the world of Jazz bands ...along with history of some two hundred years past.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
718 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64839-716-5 (9781648397165)
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Ciji Ware is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thirteen works of historical and contemporary fiction and two of nonfiction. Among many accolades, she was bestowed the Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence for Fiction and short-listed for the 2012 Willa [Cather] Literary Award for Historical Fiction. For her novels set in Scotland she was granted the designation of FSA-Scot (Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland), an honor she cherishes. A graduate of Harvard University in History, Ware is an Emmy-award winning television producer, a DuPont awardee for investigative journalism, and an American Bar Association winner of a Silver Gavel for her magazine work. For eighteen years, she was a broadcaster and commentator for KABC Radio/TV in Los Angeles and now lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area.