By Karen White
ISBN-10: 1101211512
ISBN-13: 9781101211519
At the evening their mom drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland notice there's a couple of form of demise. there's the demise of innocence, of affection, and of wish. each one sister harbors a mystery approximately that night-secrets that would erode their lives as they develop into maturity.
After ten years of silence among the sisters, Marnie is termed again to the South Carolina Lowcountry via Diana's ex-husband, Quinn. His younger son has back from a crusing journey along with his emotionally risky mom, and he's refusing to talk. with the intention to support the traumatized boy, Marnie needs to reopen outdated wounds and produce the darkest thoughts in their earlier to the skin. and he or she needs to confront Diana, earlier than all of them cross lower than.
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Gable’s vibe at this early point in his Hollywood career was enacting a growling tough guy, usually named Ace, or Rid, or Rod, and this time Babe. It was his first pic35 The Long Road ture after making MGM’s sensational Red Dust, a sexy and saucy pre-Code picture that had teamed him with Jean Harlow, the blonde bombshell who had stolen Howard Hughes from Lombard. No Man of Her Own became the only picture with both Clark Gable and Carole Lombard except for a silent comedy called The Plastic Age, starring sex symbol Clara Bow and featuring both Carole and Clark in bit parts.
Thirteen short years later, this same James Doolittle, then an Air Corps colonel, would mastermind the first United States air raid on Tokyo, Japan, just four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Lombard the voracious reader might have seen a story about Doolittle in the newspaper. It’s more likely she had her hands full with life at a studio the size of Pathe Pictures. Somewhere in this period, during her time under Pathe contract, Lombard adopted the salty vocabulary of a dockworker, and according to her brother Fred Peters, she did it deliberately as a way to level the playing field with the men then in charge, most of whom were wolves at the least, with some unashamed sexual predators thrown in.
Van Gordon was a quick thinker and ran to the phone to call the local sheriff and then hurried back out and stared at the soaring flames. He knew it was a plane; he had heard the humming engines right up until the sound of the explosion. Van Gordon’s first impulse was to rush to the scene, but he knew the looming mountain well enough to understand there was no point to such rash action in the dark of night. That mountain didn’t want people on it; that mountain would kill you easy as you please.
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