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The Lying Woods
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4.6 • 113 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A riveting, atmospheric, multi-generational, high-stakes mystery by Ashley Elston, New York Times bestselling author of First Lie Wins!
Owen Foster has never wanted for anything. Then his mother shows up at his elite New Orleans boarding school cradling a bombshell: his privileged life has been funded by stolen money. After using the family business, the single largest employer in his small Louisiana town, to embezzle millions and drain the employees' retirement accounts, Owen's father vanished without a trace, leaving Owen and his mother to deal with the fallout. Owen returns to Lake Cane to finish his senior year, where people he hardly remembers despise him for his father's crimes. It's bad enough dealing with muttered insults and glares, but when Owen and his mother receive increasingly frightening threats from someone out for revenge, he knows he must get to the bottom of what really happened at Louisiana Frac...and the cryptic note his father sent him at his boarding school days before disappearing. Owen's only refuge is the sprawling, isolated pecan orchard he works at after school, owned by a man named Gus who has his own secrets--and in some ways seems to know Owen better than he knows himself. As Owen uncovers a terrible injustice that looms over the same Preacher Woods he's claimed as his own, he must face a shocking truth about his past--and write a better future.
Customer Reviews
Amazing writer
I could not put this book down!! She has a true gift for writing. It was a page turner that I honestly could see myself re-reading. This should be turned into a movie.
Sooooo good!
Ashley Elston has a true gift for writing! She is amazing at developing characters and plot twists. I was on the edge of my seat the whole book. I could reread this book a million times I think. I enjoyed the lovestory in it and how she had me rooting for so many characters I felt connections with.
Great Read! I have read two of her books in 10 days
Great depth of detail and d plot intertwines