{"title":"Valerie Fraser Luesse","description":"Valerie Fraser Luesse is the bestselling author of Missing Isaac, Almost Home, The Key to Everything, Under the Bayou Moon, and Letters from My Sister. She is an award-winning magazine writer best known for her feature stories and essays in Southern Living, where she retired as senior travel editor. A graduate of Auburn University and Baylor University, she lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her husband, Dave.","products":[{"product_id":"the-light-on-horn-island-paperback","title":"The Light on Horn Island - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJust when her life comes crumbling down, she discovers secrets that could shape her future--and heal her past. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Edie Gardner's life in New York falls apart, her grandmother Adele \"Punk\" Cheramie coaxes her back to tiny Bayou du Ch?ne, Mississippi. Edie spent many happy summers there, a stone's throw from untamed Horn Island, where she once found love. Can she now demystify the island's strange new light?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePunk and her colorful friends introduce Edie to the Trove, a fascinating gallery and antique shop. Like Horn Island's light, The Trove has appeared out of nowhere. Its proprietor, with a gift for discerning his customers' needs, gives Edie a Victorian parlor game that asks players a series of personal questions, which is harmless fun at first. But Edie and her grandmother's circle find that the game has a way of uncovering secrets, including a heartbreak that has haunted one of the women for decades. 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A Family Changed Forever.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the turn of the twentieth century, sisters Emmy and Callie Bullock are living a privileged life as the only daughters of a wealthy Alabama cotton farmer when their well-ordered household gets turned upside down by the arrival of Lily McGee. Arrestingly beautiful, Lily quickly--and innocently--draws the wrong kind of attention. Meanwhile, Callie meets a man who offers her the freedom to abandon social constraints and discover her truest self.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter Lily has a baby, Callie witnesses something she was never meant to see--or did she? Her memory is a haze, just an image in her mind of Emmy standing on a darkened riverbank and cradling Lily's missing baby girl. Only when the sisters are separated does the truth slowly come to light through their letters--including a revelation that will shape the rest of Callie's life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBestselling author Valerie Fraser Luesse weaves a complex and suspenseful tale dripping with intrigue, romance, and Southern charm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo sisters. One mystery. A family changed forever.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the turn of the twentieth century, sisters Emmy and Callie Bullock are living a privileged life when their well-ordered Alabama household gets turned upside down by the arrival of Lily McGee. Arrestingly beautiful, Lily quickly--and innocently--draws the wrong kind of attention.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter Lily has a baby, Callie witnesses something she was never meant to see--or did she? 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