The things I won't do for a good book...especially when it's free!!

About the book (from the author's own website)

Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother make sure the very literal family skeleton stays buried or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished Actress with a capital A, is her polar opposite, priding herself on exposing the lurid truth lurking behind middle class niceties. While Laurel's life seems neat and on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 14-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne.

 

The ghost leads Laurel to the real Molly floating lifelessly in the Hawthorne's backyard pool. Molly's death is inexplicable--an unseemly mystery Laurel knows no one in her whitewashed neighborhood is up to solving. Only her wayward, unpredictable sister is right for the task, but calling in a favor from Thalia is like walking straight into a frying pan protected only by Crisco. Enlisting Thalia's help, Laurel sets out on a life-altering journey that triggers startling revelations about her family's guarded past, the true state of her marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming.

That sounds so good that I want to go out and buy it instead of waiting to see if I win, but I'll wait. :(.  I'm in need of a good book at the moment.  I'm kind of in a rut and want so desperately to get out of it.  We shall see!!

Comments

[Linda]

Have you heard of these?

Paperback Swap: http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.php?b=google&gclid=CNe59InR5JECFUZ0OAodXGy_fw

It seems interesting...my friend uses it and loves it. Me, I just send out books to my friends if they're interested (I have a good book called Oceans Apart by Karen Kingsbury, if you're interested - it's a Christian book).

Or, you could see if there are any Book crossers nearby:

http://www.bookcrossing.com/?gclid=CJLZwY7S5JECFRAoFQodyBSJGA

Book crossing is where you "release books into the wild"...leaving them in public places with a special label on them. If a person finds the book, they register the book with the website, and then when they are done, they put the book somewhere, etc, etc, etc. Books travel all around the world this way!