What Fiction are you reading this week, December 29, 2024?

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3. "It Happened In Silence" by Karla M Jay

I went on a Kindle spree yesterday and had to start this immediately after reading the sample!!!

This is a powerful tale of family, a celebration of decency, and the heartbreak of society's injustices then that rings true today. ★★★★★

Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, where horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden. It's Georgia 1921. Mute since birth, fifteen-year-old Willow Stewart has one task to complete—to leave her Appalachian homestead and find a traveling preacher and her brother, Briar. When a peddler kidnaps her, she escapes only to face an unjust arrest and penal servitude. The laws are not on her side. Or her brother's.
Briar is serving time on a chain gang with four months left. When an immigrant boy asks him for help, Briar must decide if he should jeopardize his freedom to help the penniless boy.
Soon Willow and Briar become ensnared in a world of cruel secrets, savage truths, deceitful practices, and desperate predicaments.
This novel delves into the gut and sinew of fairness, probing often inexplicable questions, as old and persistent as the forest itself.

This is one of those books that catches and holds you. It is beautifully written; I highly recommend it. This is set in North Georgia (in Marjorie Sporkfoot's district actually). I am not that far in and I can see how someone like her is sent to Congress.

I finally finished The Isis Covenant and thoroughly enjoyed it. I have one more from this series remaining. James Thompson writes a really good convulated adventure story.