The Roanoke Girls: A Novel

· Sold by Crown
4.7
17 reviews
Ebook
304
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About this ebook

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “With more twists than a bag of pretzels, this compelling family saga may make you question what you think you know about your own relatives.”Cosmopolitan 

“Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die.”
 
After her mother's suicide, fifteen year-old Lane Roanoke came to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin, Allegra, on their vast estate in rural Kansas. Lane knew little of her mother's mysterious family, but she quickly embraced life as one of the rich and beautiful Roanoke girls. But when she discovered the dark truth at the heart of the family, she ran…fast and far away.
 
Eleven years later, Lane is adrift in Los Angeles when her grandfather calls to tell her Allegra has gone missing. Did she run too? Or something worse? Unable to resist his pleas, Lane returns to help search, and to ease her guilt at having left Allegra behind. Her homecoming may mean a second chance with the boyfriend whose heart she broke that long ago summer. But it also means facing the devastating secret that made her flee, one she may not be strong enough to run from again.
 
As it weaves between Lane’s first Roanoke summer and her return, The Roanoke Girls shocks and tantalizes, twisting its way through revelation after mesmerizing revelation, exploring the secrets families keep and the fierce and terrible love that both binds them together and rips them apart.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
17 reviews
Bookish Leigh
June 3, 2017
I started this book with really zero intention of finishing it any time soon. I had a million books ahead of it on my TBR list and I just happened to get stuck somewhere with a dead phone and this book. Just about 24 hrs later I was finished. This novel completely sucked me in to it's hot, dry, twisted world of the Roanoke family and the dark secrets that go on behind the closed doors of an equally warped home that shares their name. The Roanoke Girls tells a story of three generations of broken, dead, or missing Roanoke girls and the family's patriarch. Ms. Engel does an amazing job of creating the backdrop for this story and really sucks the reader into hot, dry, desolate existence of a small town in the middle of nowhere Kansas . She tells a hauntingly tragic story of damaged girls who's knowledge of love is so rotted out that they are left not know how to recognize, believe in, or show love in a true form. This book definitely hit on disturbing topics but is wonderfully written and captivating.
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About the author

AMY ENGEL is the author of the young adult series The Book of Ivy. A former criminal defense attorney, she lives in Missouri with her family. This is her first novel for adults.

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