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The New York Times best-selling writer of Serena profits to Appalachia, this time around at the height of World War I, with the storyplot of a blazing but doomed love affair caught in the turmoil of a nation at warfare.... Deep in the durable Appalachians of North Carolina is the cove, a dark, forbidding place where spirits and fetches wander, and even the light fears to travel. Roughly the townsfolk of Mars Hill believe - equally they know that Laurel Shelton, the depressed young woman who lives within its shadows, is a witch. By themselves aside from her sibling, Hank, newly came back from the trenches of France, she aches for her life to begin. Then it happens - a stranger appears, carrying nothing but a beautiful silver flute and an email explaining that his name is Walter, he's mute, and is also bound for NY. Laurel sees him in the woods, nearly stung to fatality by yellow spencer, and nurses him back to health. As the days cross, Walter slips easily into life in the cove and into Laurel's heart and soul, bringing her really the only happiness she's ever before known. But Walter harbors a top secret that could ruin everything - and threat is closer than they know. Though the warfare in European countries is near its end, patriotic fervor flourishes thanks to the likes of Chauncey Feith, an ambitious young military recruiter who stokes dread and outrage throughout the county. In a period of uncertainty, when dread and ignorance reign, Laurel and Walter will discover that love might not be enough to safeguard them. This lyrical, heartrending story, as mesmerizing as its award-winning predecessor Serena, shows once again this masterful novelist at the height of his forces.
