The Wedding Night (Now) On night of the wedding, as the guests dance, a storm rages and the lights go out. When they come back on, there is a trail of bloody footsteps no one notices and a loud scream. The Day Before (This section introduces all the main characters.) Aoife, a wedding planner, and …
Prologue, December 20, 1937 Margery “Marge” O’Hare and her horse Charley are stopped by a man, Clem McCullough. He attacks her, but she hits him with a book and gets away. Chapters 1 – 3 (Three months earlier) At a town meeting in Baileyville, Kentucky, it’s announced that the Works Progress Administration (WPA) has released …
Prologue The book opens with the discovery of bodies in a secret graveyard on the north side of the Nickel campus. Nickel had once been a reform school, but has now been closed for three years. Elwood Curtis is a former student, now a grown man. When the secret graves are discovered, he knows he …
Part I The Water Dancer, Chapter One Hiram “Hi” Walker is a slave. He lives in the town of Starfall near the river Goose, where he works at an estate called Lockless in Virginia. His master is Maynard, who is technically his half-brother, as they share the same father. Their father is the Master of …
Part 1: The Lost Twins (1968) One Mallard, Louisianna is a farm town originally founded by a light-skinned black man, who dreamed of and succeeded in building a town full of light-skinned black people. Many generations later, the Vignes twins (Stella and Desiree) are light-skinned black girls and descendants of the town’s founder. They ran …
