Eddy Trout, part-time bartender and pot-grower, has a troubled heart. In this, the second novel of the Eddy Trout Series, Eddy has left his wife and buried his father in a gone-to-seed garden, and now he’s running hard toward what he hopes is a new, brighter tomorrow. His sister, Em, has disappeared, and he’s got to find and “save” her. She turns up where they both swore they’d never return—Oak Creek, the small Oregon logging town of their childhood, where dark memories threaten … and may possibly free them.
This was a little hard to get into first, but once I got past the opening chapters, I really got into the story. I liked what the author did with the two storylines. I thought that was rather ingenious. I also felt that the story read more like a mystery which appealed to me.