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Today's Featured Title and Contest |
July 27, 2016 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Thursday, July 28th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of AGE OF CONSENT by Marti Leimbach, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
You can take a look at all the books we're giving away in this year's Summer Reading contests on our Pinterest page here.
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: AGE OF CONSENT by Marti Leimbach
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From the author of DANIEL ISN'T TALKING and DYING YOUNG comes a shattering new novel, a page-turner about a sexual relationship between a grown man and a newly teenaged girl.
June was a young widow with a hopeless crush on Craig Kirtz, a disc jockey at a local rock station. To her surprise, the two struck up a friendship that seemed headed for something more. But it was June’s 13-year-old daughter, Bobbie, whom Craig had wanted all along. Bobbie thought her secret life --- the sex, the drugs, the illicit relationship itself --- could remain safely buried in the past. But 30 years later, when Bobbie discovers Craig’s attentions to her had been repeated with any number of girls, she returns home with one purpose in mind: to bring Craig to trial.
Her decision is greeted with mixed feelings. Some people think that bringing charges against someone for a crime committed so many years ago is unjustified. She’s called a “middle-aged woman with a vendetta.” She’s accused of waging war against her own family. But the past has a way of revealing itself, and some relationships lie dormant through the years, ready to stir to life at the slightest provocation.
June remembers things differently from the way Bobbie does. Craig insists he has done nothing wrong. As their traumatic history is relived in the courtroom, Bobbie and June must come to terms with the choices they made and face the truth they have long refused to acknowledge.
Told with warmth and compassion, this is a moving, deeply absorbing story of a family in crisis.
-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to visit Marti Leimbach's official website.
-Click here to connect with Marti Leimbach on Twitter.
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Click here to enter the contest by Thursday, July 28th at 11:59am ET. |
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