Book description
The main lesson Luce had learned was that you couldn't count on anybody.
In the lonesome beauty of the forest, across the far shore of the
mountain lake from town, Luce acts as caretaker to an empty, decaying
Lodge, a relic of holidaymakers a century before. Her days are long and
peaceful, her nights filled with Nashville radio and yellow lights
shimmering on the black water. A solitary life, and the perfect escape.
Until the stranger children come. Bringing fire. And murder. And love.
Charles Frazier grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. COLD
MOUNTAIN, his highly acclaimed first novel, was an international
bestseller, selling over one million copies and winning the National
Book Award in 1997. It was the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film
directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, and
Renee Zellweger. A second novel, THIRTEEN MOONS, was published by
Sceptre in 2007. NIGHTWOODS, Charles' latest novel, is set in a lakeside
town in 1960s North Carolina.
