While Annie tries to plan the biggest wedding the town has seen in a decade, the man convicted of killing her mother reaches out for help in overturning his conviction. When you’re the only survivor of the town’s darkest moment, you do whatever you can to bring light.” Her offering on behalf of the greater good. She weaves an entertaining tale that keeps the reader in a state of perpetual suspicion, collecting new tidbits of information and slowly patching them together like one of my grandmother’s intricate wedding quilts. Whalen’s new novel Only Ever Her isn’t so much a who-done-it, as it is a who’s-doing-what. There’s nothing like small-town drama, no? I grew up in one - a place where it feels like everyone knows everyone - but despite the sharing of recipes, chatter, and church pews, do we ever truly know our neighbors? “One thing she knows about lies – once they start to stack up, they can topple over, crushing you under the weight of them.”
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