In the spellbinding and suspenseful Let Me Die in His Footsteps Edgar Awardwinner Lori Roy wrests from a Southern town the secrets of two families touched by an evil that has passed between generations On a dark Kentucky night in exactly halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays Annie Holleran crosses into forbidden territory Everyone knows Hollerans dont go near Baines not since Joseph Carl was buried two decades before but armed with a silver-handled flashlight Annie runs through her familys lavender fields toward the well on the Baines place At the stroke of midnight she gazes into the water in search of her future Not finding what she had hoped for she turns from the well and when the body she sees there in the moonlight is discovered come morning Annie will have much to explain and a past to account forIt was and there were seven Baine boys That year Annies aunt Juna Crowley with her black eyes and her long blond hair came of age Before Juna Joseph Carl had been the best of all the Baine brothers But then he looked into Junas eyes and they made him do things that cost innocent people their lives Sheriff Irlene Fulkerson saw justice servedor did sheAs the lavender harvest approaches and she comes of age as Aunt Juna did in her own time Annies dread mounts Juna will come home now to finish what she started If Annie is to save herself her family and this small Kentucky town she must prepare for Junas return and the revelation of what really happened all those years ago.
