By Don Hoesel
After an extended absence, novelist CJ Baxter returns to his fatherland of Adelia in upstate long island for his grandfather's funeral. dealing with a messy divorce and doubting his expertise as a author, CJ is pressured to confront secrets and techniques that experience tormented him because early life. To complicate concerns, his brother Graham is operating for a Senate seat, and the relatives is motive on conserving the main harmful secret--surrounding a homicide and its cover-up--in the kinfolk, for worry the reality may destroy Graham's percentages at profitable. yet with CJ airing their soiled laundry in his books, the kinfolk is pressured to accommodate him. CJ needs to give you the option to stay secure whereas coming to phrases with the newfound religion that pressured him to come to Adelia within the first position.
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Through the trees he could see Adelia waking. As he watched, drawing long and slow on the cigarette, a city services truck rolled up Main Street, stopping at the entrance to the roundabout that fronted the town hall, the courthouse, and the library. Although his vantage point made it difficult to determine with certainty, he was reasonably confident that the two men who exited the truck were Gabe and Doug. And his conviction that the cargo in the back of the truck was a Fall Festival sign was even stronger.
Cm. ) 1. Authorship—Fiction. 2. Family secrets—Fiction. 3. Exposed—Fiction. 4. Political campaigns—Fiction. 5. New York (State)—Fiction. I. Title. 6—dc22 2009040692 For Dawn It’s just a place where we used to live. —Mark Knopfler Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Acknowledgments About the Author Chapter 1 Adelia, New York A line of venerable sugar maples stood between the Baxter home and the private road, half obscuring the residence from anyone following the winding route up the hill until the moment the cobblestone driveway appeared, as if from nowhere, on the right.
But the news he’d called to deliver had been the real blow. Sal had been CJ’s favorite relation, the only member of the family he’d missed since leaving Adelia for college back in ’93. That first year he’d spoken with Sal every few weeks from the pay phone in the student union at Vanderbilt, and his grandfather had always accepted the charges. While that level of communication had tapered off under the weight of CJ’s class load, his commitments to the student paper and the requisite collegiate social schedule, Sal had remained CJ’s only link to the family, which lent the relationship more intimacy than it might otherwise have had.