An
electrifying, page-turning debut about a young woman haunted by her
tragic past, who returns to her hometown and discovers that there might
be more to her police detective mother’s death—and last case—than she
ever could have imagined.
Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence with her grifter
boyfriend when she learns that her great grandmother—her last living
relative—has just died. Ditching her boyfriend, Gus returns to the home
she left as a young girl. Her inheritance turns out to be a dilapidated
house and an old dog named Levi. While combing through her great
grandmother’s possessions, Gus stumbles across an old trunk filled with
long-lost childhood belongings. But that’s not all the trunk contains.
She also discovers cold case files that belonged to her mother, a
disgraced police detective who died in a car accident when Gus was
eight. Gus remembers her mother obsessing over these very same documents
and photographs, especially a Polaroid of a young ballerina.
When Gus spots a front-page news story about the unearthing of a body
linked to one of the cold case files from her childhood trunk, she can’t
resist following her mother’s clues. As she digs deeper, determined to
finish her mother’s investigation, her search leads her to a deserted
ghost town, which was left abandoned when the residents fled after a
horrific fire. As Gus’ obsession with the case grows, she inadvertently
stirs up the evils of the past, putting her life in danger. But Gus is
undeterred and is committed to uncovering long-buried secrets, including
the secrets surrounding a missing geology student, the young ballerina
in the Polaroid, a prominent family’s devastating legacy, and a toxic
blast that blew an entire town off the map.
But is Gus ready to learn the truths that culminated on one terrible
August night, more than a decade earlier, when lives were taken, and
secrets were presumed buried forever…?
Dark August introduces a bold new voice and will leave readers guessing until the final startling conclusion.
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