Olympia Vernon

In a follow-up to the author's successful first novel Eden, a girl almost dies when she falls from a tree at age thirteen, and her subsequent recovery from the accident sends unexpected shock waves through her troubled family. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Scandalizing her rural Mississippi town when she draws a naked woman in the Bible during Sunday School, precocious fourteen-year-old Maddy is made to spend the weekends caring for her terminally ill aunt, a relationship that results in her confrontations with disturbing secrets that overshadow their community. A first novel. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.