Description

The Design Group Press [Published Date: 2008]. Hardcover, 358 pp. Stated First Edition. Inscribed "Welcome to Selby!" (NOT personalized) and signed by Marti Healy on front free end paper. Very good in very good dust jacket. Brown textured Paper over Boards with cream lettering on front and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Spine is just slightly cocked but binding is still nice and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and creasing along edges. light overall scuffing to jacket as well a bit of fading to spine. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Sepia-toned illustrations [From back cover] Writer Macy Harris moves to the small Southern town of Selby, South Carolina, in search of mild winters and a culture known for its equally warm hospitality. A place to write in rhythm with a slower pace of life. She soon becomes enchanted with Selby's gentle residents, its generations of history, its tradition of horses and dogs, its magnificent old homes and gardens, art and music, and excellent cuisine. But Selby also has its share of eccentric neighbors and family secrets. Secrets that have haunted their caretakers for more than a century, and still whisper from their graves. A tragic train derailment, the dying words of one of its victims, a fabled ruby necklace, a strained childhood friendship, a turn-of-the-century attempted murder, a terrifying storm that washes a 150-year-old secret to the surface -- all come together as part of a tangled, multi-generational mystery that eventually takes an entire town to decipher.