Burning Houses: A Novel
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When Cat Byers’ mother dies and leaves her and her sister a surprise inheritance of 10 million dollars and 500 acres of oil land, a woman adrift must overcome her unresolved past and a mysterious stalker to discover the truth about her mother, her family and herself. What Cat uncovers is a secret that stretches from her own complex childhood in her hometown of Emporia, Kansas to the tiny town of Greensburg, Kansas, the setting of her mother’s nightmarish upbringing---a piece of family history that has been hidden for more than thirty years. In Emporia, people still whisper about her father’s death in a fire and her mother’s subsequent breakdown and wonder if Cat has inherited her mother’s mental instability. In Greensburg, people still gossip about the fire that destroyed the LTF ranch and killed Cat’s grandparents—grandparents she never knew existed until she read the contents of her mother’s will. Along the way Cat struggles with her sister, Emmylou, and her desire to leave the past in the past and fights to resolve her feelings for her ex-boyfriend who reappears just when she needs an ally. This literary mystery novel follows Cat as she unravels the tangled story of her family’s past and discovers a strength she never knew she possessed.
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M.F.A.