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Isabella Moon - Isabella Moon is a book of secrets and dark miracles. Laura Benedict writes with tender power and understanding, filling the pages with characters whose mysteries and longings will matter to every reader. Luanne Rice, author of The Edge of Winter Sometimes the past comes looking for you. . . . Two years ago, in idyllic Carystown, Kentucky, nine-year-old Isabella Moon disappeared on her way home from school. Is it just coincidence that Kate Russell, a young woman with no discernible past, arrived in town just months before Isabellas disappearance? When Kate walks into Sheriff Bill Delaneys office to tell him that Isabellas ghost has led her to the childs hidden grave, he immediately views her as a suspect. Mystery follows mystery as a local athlete drops dead, inexplicably, on the basketball court, and someone close to Kate is viciously murdered. Quiet Carystown was to be Kates salvation, and shes settled into a comfortable job, a charming cottage, and a blissful romance. But having lied to her boyfriend, Caleb, for so long about the terrors of her past life, she finds she cant trust him to understand the terror that Isabella Moon has now brought. And Kates best friend, Francie, is too wrapped up in her own troublesparticularly a secret affair with a man she at once loves and despisesto give Kate the help she needs. Utterly alone, Kate is torn between finding justice for the dead child and keeping away old ghosts of her own. The unsolved disappearance of Isabella Moon has been the biggest disappointment of Sheriff Delaneys career. But he senses that Kate is trouble. As he investigates her impossible claims, he also uncovers a series of unsettling truths about Carystown itself. Behind his hometowns genteel faade is a morass of lies and murder, drugs and destruction. And Carystowns residents are about to discover that even though the past is buried, it can rise againwith a vengeance. Dark and suspenseful, tense and eerie, tinged with the supernatural, Isabella Moon is an engrossing, beautifully written debut novel, a breathtaking and artful story of the dark mysteries that can lurk in the most bucolic of placesand the ghost of a little girl who watches as evil rises unstoppably to the surface.


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⚡️Book Title : Isabella Moon
⚡Book Author : Laura Benedict
⚡Page : 368 pages
⚡Published September 25th 2007 by Ballantine Books

Isabella Moon

Isabella Moon is a book of secrets and dark miracles. Laura Benedict writes with tender power and understanding, filling the pages with characters whose mysteries and longings will matter to every reader. Luanne Rice, author of The Edge of Winter Sometimes the past comes looking for you. . . . Two years ago, in idyllic Carystown, Kentucky, nine-year-old Isabella Moon disappeared on her way home from school. Is it just coincidence that Kate Russell, a young woman with no discernible past, arrived in town just months before Isabellas disappearance? When Kate walks into Sheriff Bill Delaneys office to tell him that Isabellas ghost has led her to the childs hidden grave, he immediately views her as a suspect. Mystery follows mystery as a local athlete drops dead, inexplicably, on the basketball court, and someone close to Kate is viciously murdered. Quiet Carystown was to be Kates salvation, and shes settled into a comfortable job, a charming cottage, and a blissful romance. But having lied to her boyfriend, Caleb, for so long about the terrors of her past life, she finds she cant trust him to understand the terror that Isabella Moon has now brought. And Kates best friend, Francie, is too wrapped up in her own troublesparticularly a secret affair with a man she at once loves and despisesto give Kate the help she needs. Utterly alone, Kate is torn between finding justice for the dead child and keeping away old ghosts of her own. The unsolved disappearance of Isabella Moon has been the biggest disappointment of Sheriff Delaneys career. But he senses that Kate is trouble. As he investigates her impossible claims, he also uncovers a series of unsettling truths about Carystown itself. Behind his hometowns genteel faade is a morass of lies and murder, drugs and destruction. And Carystowns residents are about to discover that even though the past is buried, it can rise againwith a vengeance. Dark and suspenseful, tense and eerie, tinged with the supernatural, Isabella Moon is an engrossing, beautifully written debut novel, a breathtaking and artful story of the dark mysteries that can lurk in the most bucolic of placesand the ghost of a little girl who watches as evil rises unstoppably to the surface.