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New York Times best-selling writer Ron Rash demonstrates his superb narrative skills in this suspenseful and evocative story of two brothers whose lives are transformed irrevocably by the situations of one long-ago summertime - and one bewitching young woman - and the secrets which could damage their lives. While swimming in a remote creek on the hot Sunday in 1969, 16-year-old Eugene and his elderly brother, Bill, meet up with the entrancing Ligeia. An attractive, free-spirited redhead from Daytona Beach banished with their small NEW YORK town before fall, Ligeia can not only bewitch both brothers but lure them into a struggle that discloses the hidden differences in their natures. Drawn in by her raw sensuality and rebellious attitude, Eugene falls more deeply under her spell. Ligeia presents him to the thrills and pleasures of the counterculture activity, then in its headiest moment. And the movement's younger optimism turns dark in other places in the country that summertime, so does Eugene and Ligeia's brief romance. Eugene goes further and additional away from his brother, the cautious and dutiful Monthly bill, and when Ligeia vanishes as abruptly as she came out, the growing rift between your two brothers becomes immutable. Ages later their romantic relationship is still turbulent, and the once close brothers now lead very different lives. Monthly bill is a gifted and successful plastic surgeon, a paragon of the city, while Eugene, the town reprobate, is a failed copy writer and decided alcoholic. When a shocking reminder of days gone by unexpectedly surfaces, Eugene is plunged back into that fateful summertime and the lady he cannot forget. The deeper he delves into his memories, the closer he involves finding the fact. But can Eugene's recollections be trusted? And will the reality placed him free and offer salvation...or damage his ruined life and everyone he adores?
