Richland Library Sandhills
Second Wednesday Book Group
Wednesday, July 13, 2022 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Read at your own pace and then join us at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 13 for a lively discussion. (A virtual option will be provided: after registering, a Zoom link will be sent to the e-mail address associated with your library card one day prior to the event.)
You may pick up a physical copy at the Sandhills drive-thru. If you'd like to pick it up at another location, please contact mryan@richlandlibrary.com.
At last, Helena Pelletier has the life she deserves. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters, a business that fills her days. Then she catches an emergency news announcement and realizes she was a fool to think she could ever leave her worst days behind her.Helena has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No electricity, no heat, no running water, not a single human beyond the three of them. Helena, born two years after the abduction, loved her home in naturefishing, tracking, hunting. And despite her father's odd temperament and sometimes brutal behavior, she loved him, too . . . until she learned precisely how savage a person he could be. More than twenty years later, she has buried her past so soundly that even her husband doesn't know the truth. But now her father has killed two guards, escaped from prison, and disappeared into the marshland he knows better than anyone else in the world. The police commence a manhunt, but Helena knows they don't stand a chance. Knows that only one person has the skills to find the survivalist the world calls the Marsh Kingbecause only one person was ever trained by him: his daughter.