All the Beautiful Things

In Lochtahatchie County, Alabama nothing is as it seems.

A strand of gold beads washed up from the river and a marble angel keeping watch over the grave of a young woman intrigue a young blogger running from her life. She stumbles upon a mysterious new world and a woman tending the grave who tells her about the girl buried there, Mary Jo Bonner.

Soon she is transported through the woman's stories to a forgotten world of the 1960's and learns about a young girl, Laura Kathryn Fitzpatrick, a fifteen-year-old tomboy anxious to escape the confines of her southern world and into a world of freedom.

Laura Kathryn's intrigue leads her to just beyond the stately homes into an underworld of thick, wild woods where her older brother and his friends escape to drink, smoke and hang out. It also leads her face to face with murder and a secret she will have to keep if she wants to live. Now she must navigate a distorted world built on lies, where darkness replaces light.