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LORI ROY
Two-Time Edgar Award-Winning Author
"Lori Roy's voice is so entrancing you can almost smell the orange blossoms and blood. I loved it."
—Michael Connelly
#1 New York Times bestselling author
“Echoes of Carson McCullers and a soupcon of Flannery O’Connor filter through Lori Roy’s superb Lake County.... an outstanding novel.”
—Oline Cogdill
South Florida Sun Sentinel
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Synopsis
Two-time Edgar Award–winning author Lori Roy
entangles readers in a heart-pounding tale
of two women battling for survival
against a century’s worth of hate.
On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front yard, ten-year-old Beth disappears from her Simmonsville, Georgia, home. Armed with skills honed while caring for an alcoholic mother, she must battle to survive the days and months ahead.
Seven years later, Imogene Coulter is burying her father—a Klan leader she has spent her life distancing herself from—and trying to escape the memories his funeral evokes. But Imogene is forced to confront secrets long held by Simmonsville and her own family
when, while clearing out her father's apparent hideout on the day of his funeral, she finds a child. Young and alive, in an abandoned basement, and behind a door that only locks from the outside.
As Imogene begins to uncover the truth of what happened to young Beth all those years ago, her father’s heir apparent to the Klan’s leadership threatens her and her family. Driven by a love that extends beyond the ties of blood, Imogene struggles to save a girl she never knew but will now be bound to forever, and to save herself and those dearest to her.
Tightly coiled and chilling, Gone Too Long ensnares, twists, and exposes the high price we are willing to pay for the ones we love.
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