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STARLIGHT ’ S CURSE
By : K . C . Sprayberry ISBN : 978-1625263636 ASIN : B01ERRNFWQ Publisher : Solstice Publishing Publication Date : April 26 , 2016 Pages : 288 Kindle , paperback
Ragged sobs ripped from her throat as she stood beneath the tree . She raised a shaky hand toward the body , her fingers reaching for a white rectangle pinned to a bright red turtleneck sweater ... This was her baby ... She dropped to her knees and curled forward . Her arms wrapped protectively around her body , and she released great , heaving sobs of tremendous loss . Her daughter hung from the branch of an elm tree .
MARTHA CHEVES
AUTHOR / REVIEWER
Forty years earlier ... Far off in the woods , he caught sight of a dozen men wearing white robes and peaked hats slipping between the trees . It was hard to make out . Their clothes blended in well with the snow on the ground .... " There Daddy " his voice wavered , cracking into an embarrassing treble . " The tree . Look at the tree . Daddy ' s head turned kind of slow like . His mouth dropped open when he spotted the three figures dangling off ropes on that ancient elm ... He took off running , his aunt lived off the other side of the road , in a shanty cabin that was the polar opposite of Starlight Mansion .
Many times I ' ve read a book that I said was a page turner , and they were , but Starlight ' s Curse was a book that I wanted to read through the night and even the next day if need be without putting it down . A lot of that is because I grew up during the time , 40 years earlier , when the Klan was active . Part of it was because I also grew up just outside Atlanta and spent many weekends in the North Georgia mountains . But the biggest part was that the story was so real . It wasn ' t fast moving but moved more along the time lines that it would actually take for the events and thoughts to happen in real life . This book took me in from the first page and held me there until the end .
K . C . SPRAYBERRY , AUTHOR
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