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“Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die.”
After her mother's suicide, fifteen year-old Lane Roanoke came to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin, Allegra, on their vast estate in rural Kansas. Lane knew little of her mother's mysterious family, but she quickly embraced life as one of the rich and beautiful Roanoke girls. But when she discovered the dark truth at the heart of the family, she ran…fast and far away.
Eleven years later, Lane is adrift in Los Angeles when her grandfather calls to tell her Allegra has gone missing. Did she run too? Or something worse? Unable to resist his pleas, Lane returns to help search, and to ease her guilt at having left Allegra behind. Her homecoming may mean a second chance with the boyfriend whose heart she broke that long ago summer. But it also means facing the devastating secret that made her flee, one she may not be strong enough to run from again.
As it weaves between Lane’s first Roanoke summer and her return, The Roanoke Girls shocks and tantalizes, twisting its way through revelation after mesmerizing revelation, exploring the secrets families keep and the fierce and terrible love that both binds them together and rips them apart.
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- ISBN: 9781101906675
- File size: 2736 KB
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- ISBN: 9781101906675
- File size: 6269 KB
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- English
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Reviews
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January 9, 2017
YA author Engel (The Book of Ivy) makes her adult debut with a gripping if creepy thriller set on the Kansas prairie. Lane Roanoke fervently hoped she had seen the last of Roanoke, the family homestead, when she fled Kansas for Los Angeles as a desperate 16-year-old, but now a decade later the disappearance of her cousin Allegra, the only kin to whom she feels a connection, compels her to return against her better judgment. Indeed, with local law enforcement stymied, it seems that the only hope of solving the mystery lies with Lane and whatever clues she can dredge up from memories of the traumatic summer the two cousins shared as teens. Skipping lightly between past and present, including Lane’s efforts to finally come to terms with the two most influential men in her life—dangerously seductive family patriarch Yates and roguish Cooper Sullivan, her never-forgotten first love—this gothic page-turner speeds inexorably toward the kinds of devastating revelations readers won’t soon forget. Agent: Jodi Reamer, Writers House. -
October 15, 2016
Fifteen years old when her mother commits suicide, Lane Roanoke must go live with her indifferent grandparents in rural Kansas but bonds with spiky cousin Allegra. A devastating family secret drives her away until she learns that Allegra has gone missing. Engel's first adult novel after the YA titles The Book of Ivy and The Revolution of Ivy; with a 100,000-copy first printing.
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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December 1, 2016
When 15-year-old Lane Roanoke's mother commits suicide, Lane returns to the family's eponymous home in rural Kansas--the place her mother had been so desperate to escape years before. At first, life at Roanoke seems comfortable. Lane and her cousin Allegra have the run of the house and the undivided attention of their grandfather Yates. But over the course of a summer, Lane begins to uncover the same dark family secrets that drove her mother away. Herself fleeing from Roanoke eleven years later, Lane again returns to try to solve the mystery of Allegra's disappearance--and to bring the ugly past to light. Engel (The Book of Ivy) has had success with several YA novels. In her first foray into adult fiction, she creates a memorable cast of characters and a twisting, tangled plot that attracts readers from the first page. VERDICT This atmospheric and unsettling tale of the secrets and bonds of family, set against the backdrop of small-town Kansas, is recommended for fans of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides and Lory Roy's Bent Road. [See Prepub Alert, 9/26/16.]--Amy Hoseth, Colorado State Univ. Lib., Fort Collins
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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