The Summer After June

Ashley Warlick''s critically acclaimed second novel THE SUMMER AFTER JUNE weaves a spellbinding tale of family and flight over the course of one feverish southern summer. Lindy Jain a young pragmatic willful woman is about to be married when her beloved sister June is mysteriously murdered. Lindy Jain then makes a desperate decision fleeing her hometown of Charlotte -- her job her fiance her shattered family. She lights out for the heat of the Texas coast with the one thing that still ties her to her sister: June''s baby son. Suspenseful and sensuous utterly compelling THE SUMMER AFTER JUNE surpasses the enormous promise of Warlick''s prizewinning first novel. Ashley Warlick is wise beyond her years and gifted by a graceful insight not only into humanity''s fears and foibles but also into its capacity to evolve to be redeemed (Oxford American).