Monthly Archives: October 2012

For years Vera Gamble carried the guilt of having let her autistic brother walk away from their home, never to be heard from again. Then, 13 years after Siggy disappeared, Vera received a phone call that changed her life forever. Siggy’s body had been found. In just a matter of days, Vera left the comfort of logical numbers in her CPA world and entered the little town of Winter Haven to identify and claim her brother’s body. Her discovery that Siggy appeared to be the same age as the day he had left home 13 years earlier set off an investigation into the mystery and unleashed a few of the strangest days of Vera’s life.
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Pilotville is a town built on stilts and lies. It’s the place where Hale Poser, who was raised in an orphanage, arrives looking for answers to his past—“his mother, or his father, or at least a tombstone with their name—his own name, whatever that might be.” What he discovers is a town that is full of contradictions, with whites and blacks who associate in everyday life, yet worship separately; and a town benefactor who is extremely kind and giving to the folks of Pilotville, yet has a horrifying secret life.
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