The Story of
Vera Jane Cook
After thirteen years on the run Violet McLaughlin
returns to Carter’s Crossing, South Carolina, in
1962, with her young daughter, Sassy. As Sassy
stands before the imposing white farmhouse for
the first time, with no knowledge of her history but
that the McLaughlin’s are her kin, she struggles to
survive secrets of murder, hate and unspeakable
acts of cruelty through the comfort of those close.
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Vera Jane Cook
In the town of Hollow Creek, South Carolina two
separate murders, fifteen years apart, unite fifteen-
year-old Pleasant Day and sixty-year-old Clarissa
Blackwell. As Pleasant struggles with her mother’s
distance, her father’s infidelity and the death of
her best friend, she draws closer to Clarissa, an
older woman with an uncanny, almost psychic,
ability to ‘read people.’
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