A Light in the Forest

Thank you GetRed PR and Melissa Payne for this gifted copy.

Happy Pub Day!

I’m truly looking forward to diving into Payne’s latest book. I have a feeling it will keep me hooked and on the edge of my seat with suspense and all the emotions that come with a story about perseverance.

𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: Vega Jones escapes an abusive relationship with nothing but her two-month-old baby and the van she grew up in. Her destination is a small Ohio town her late vagabond mother left years ago. It’s one full of nobodies, her mother warned. That makes it the ideal refuge for Vega to lie low, feel safe, and maybe learn more about a past her mother never spoke of.

Vega warms to the town and to new acquaintances like Heff, the young deputy and artist who prefers his yard art to actual policing, and empathetic Eve, a local farmer whose near-death experience gave her more than just her life back. But even in this welcoming community, there’s an undercurrent of something unsettled, talk of a tragedy that unfolded in the woods years ago, and a mystery connected to Vega in ways she couldn’t have anticipated.

As a mother on the run and following a path of mounting risks and illuminating secrets, Vega discovers that even during the darkest of times, there’s light in unexpected places.

💬 𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲?