Waiting on Wednesday - Forget Me Not

 

'Waiting on Wednesday' is an event where I feature an upcoming book that I am extra excited about.  I love doing this, letting the 'word' spread about authors and series that I enjoy.   Hope you'll stop by often and see what I'm 'waiting' on.

I have enjoyed all of Stacy Willingham's books that I've read.  The one I'm 'waiting on' this week is her fourth and I think the cover is lovely and a bit creepy.  Beautiful colors, but there are some thorns and other hidden things pictured.  I first discovered Stacy when a friend that I made when we lived in Kerrville told me that her daughter's husband had a cousin who had her first book being published.  She told me a bit about it and I thought it sounded like one I'd love to try.  That book was A Flicker In The Dark and you might know that it would be noteworthy because the author comment on the cover is by Karin Slaughter (I love her books!).  That debut book sold a lot of copies and was nominated for a number of awards.  Book #2 was All The Dangerous Things and #3 was entitled Only If You're Lucky.  Can't wait for this new one!  Have you read any of Stacy's books?  What did you think?      

Forget Me Not

by Stacy Willingham

Publication Date: August 26th

A pulse-pounding new Southern thriller from the author of the runaway bestseller A Flicker in the Dark.

Twenty-two years ago, Claire Campbell’s older sister, Natalie, disappeared shortly after her eighteenth birthday. Days later, her blood was found in a car, a man was arrested, and the case was swiftly closed. In the decades since, Claire has attempted to forget her traumatic past by moving to the city and climbing the ranks as an investigative journalist... until an unexpected call from her father forces her to come back home and face it all anew.

With the entire summer now looming ahead—a summer spent with nothing to do in her childhood home, with her estranged mother—Claire decides on a whim to accept a seasonal job at Galloway Farm, a muscadine vineyard in coastal South Carolina less than an hour away from where she grew up. At first glance, Galloway is an idyllic escape for Claire. A scenic retreat full of slow-paced nostalgia, as well as a place where her sister seemed truly happy in that last summer before she vanished, it feels like the perfect plan to pass the time. However, as soon as Claire starts to settle in, she stumbles across an old diary written by one of the vineyard's owners, and what at first seems like a story of young rebellion and love turns into something much more sinister as it begins to describe details of various unsolved crimes. As the days stretch on, Claire finds herself becoming more and more secluded as she starts to obsess over the diary's contents… as well as the lingering feeling that her own sister's disappearance may be somehow tied to it all.

Galloway was supposed to be a place to help her move forward, but instead, Claire quickly finds herself immersed in her own dark and dangerous past.