With every mile she traveled, she distanced herself from her past: from her best friend Celine, mocked by their town as the only white girl with black friends from her old neighborhood from the eerie Woodsman plantation rumored to be haunted by the spirits of slaves from the terrifying memory of a ghost she saw that terrible day when a dare-gone-wrong almost got Jesse-the boy she secretly loved-arrested for murder.īut now Mira is back in Kipsen to attend Celine's wedding at the plantation, which has been transformed into a lush vacation resort. More than a decade ago, Mira fled her small, segregated hometown in the south to forget. A haunting novel about a black woman who returns to her hometown for a plantation wedding and the horror that ensues as she reconnects with the blood-soaked history of the land and the best friends she left behind.
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