BGC Book Club Presents: Wanda M. Morris, author of WHAT YOU LEAVE BEHIND
Join a conversation with Wanda M. Morris about her latest thriller, WHAT YOU LEAVE BEHIND.
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Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller that follows a lawyer who, after the mysterious disappearance of a local landowner and the death of his sister months earlier, uncovers a conspiracy that dates back to Reconstruction and persists into half of the United States. Today.
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Deena Wood's life fell apart after the loss of her beloved mother, her marriage, and her prestigious job at an Atlanta law firm. She needs what the Geechee of coastal Georgia call a “clean day,” a fresh start.
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She returns to her childhood home in Brunswick, Georgia, to heal. But her return is anything but the respite she thought it would be. To make peace with all her loss, she often drives across town. One day, she unwittingly finds herself on the seaside property of a lonely widower who is fighting to retain the land that has belonged to his family since the end of the civil war. He threatens her and warns her never to come back. But soon after, he disappears, and his very expensive property is quickly put up for sale. Curious to know what happened to this man, Deena looks into his disappearance and discovers that a family heirloom is in danger. What begins as a curious sort of espionage turns into a deadly game of illegal land grabbing and property redevelopment in poor, rural communities with dark and powerful forces at work.
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Without realizing it, Deena finds herself drawn into a nightmarish scheme that threatens her community and her family. She'll need help, and she'll find it from a close but unlikely source, because she knows she must do whatever it takes to stop the sinister forces at play before she becomes their next target.
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Pick up a copy at www.BrownGirlCollectiveBookstore.com.
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About the Author: Wanda M. Morris is the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets. Her second novel, Anywhere You Run, won the Anthony Award for Best Historical Novel of 2023 and was shortlisted for the prestigious Mark Twain Voice in American Literature Prize. She resides in Atlanta with her family.
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Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller that follows a lawyer who, after the mysterious disappearance of a local landowner and the death of his sister months earlier, uncovers a conspiracy that dates back to Reconstruction and persists into half of the United States. Today.
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Deena Wood's life fell apart after the loss of her beloved mother, her marriage, and her prestigious job at an Atlanta law firm. She needs what the Geechee of coastal Georgia call a “clean day,” a fresh start.
.
She returns to her childhood home in Brunswick, Georgia, to heal. But her return is anything but the respite she thought it would be. To make peace with all her loss, she often drives across town. One day, she unwittingly finds herself on the seaside property of a lonely widower who is fighting to retain the land that has belonged to his family since the end of the civil war. He threatens her and warns her never to come back. But soon after, he disappears, and his very expensive property is quickly put up for sale. Curious to know what happened to this man, Deena looks into his disappearance and discovers that a family heirloom is in danger. What begins as a curious sort of espionage turns into a deadly game of illegal land grabbing and property redevelopment in poor, rural communities with dark and powerful forces at work.
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Without realizing it, Deena finds herself drawn into a nightmarish scheme that threatens her community and her family. She'll need help, and she'll find it from a close but unlikely source, because she knows she must do whatever it takes to stop the sinister forces at play before she becomes their next target.
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Pick up a copy at www.BrownGirlCollectiveBookstore.com.
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About the Author: Wanda M. Morris is the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets. Her second novel, Anywhere You Run, won the Anthony Award for Best Historical Novel of 2023 and was shortlisted for the prestigious Mark Twain Voice in American Literature Prize. She resides in Atlanta with her family.
Check out our conversation on Anywhere You Run at https://www.youtube.com/live/rzoDy9_zPYU?sir5UpK2wKoeT3lhFW.
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