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When Lucy Cartaret dies, her journalist son Dan returns to her hometown, Fort Jude, Florida, in search of his real father and claiming to be investigating the mysterious deaths of three elderly women. Spontaneous human combustion, experts say. But why? Surely it’s more than coincidence – and what links these deaths to Dan’s mother? It soon becomes clear that something terrible happened during his mother’s last year in town, thirty years before. But the social elite of Fort Jude remain tight-lipped. The families who run the town will do anything to protect their own – anything.
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Award-winning science fiction writer Kit Reed is the author of more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories. She serves as Resident Writer at Wesleyan University, Connecticut.
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After his mother dies without ever revealing to Dan Carteret the identity of his biological father, the young Los Angeles Times reporter becomes intent on uncovering his paternity. An old photo of four young men taken when his mother was a teenager may provide a lead for his search. And an old news clipping about a woman who spontaneously combusted in the insular Florida town of Fort Jude, where Lucy Carteret grew up, gives him the perfect excuse to poke around in old records and interview people who may have known his mother 30 years earlier. He finds that the town, with its entrenched caste system, harbors many secrets and an ugly history. Reed tells this tale from several different viewpoints, providing a deep look into the lives of insiders and outsiders, and the successes and failures of those who knew Lucy Carteret back then. This contemporary gothic mystery will keep readers guessing. --Diana Tixier Herald
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