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The Color of Light
With a lyrical Southern voice, Karen
White delivers an emotionally moving novel of a woman in search
of a new beginning…and of a man haunted by the past.
At thirty-two, Jillian Parrish finally
finds the courage to take charge of her life and discover
what really lives in the dark space under her bed. Recently
divorced, she takes her young daughter to seek refuge and
solace on Pawleys Island, South Carolina—Jillian's only source
of happy childhood memories. Summers spent at her grandmother's
beach house were Jillian's sanctuary from indifferent parents
until her best friend, Lauren Mills, disappeared.
Linc Rising, Lauren's boyfriend was
a suspect in Lauren's disappearance. Although Jillian never
doubted his innocence, her parents whisked her back home to
Atlanta, and she never got a chance to tell him. Now a resentful
Linc is back on Pawleys Island, renovating the old Mills house.
As ghosts of the past return to haunt them, and Jillian's
daughter begins having eerie conversation with an imaginary
friend named Lauren, Jillian and Linc will uncover the truth
about Lauren and about the feelings they have kept buried
for sixteen years…
Reviews
"The reader will hear the ocean
roar and the seagulls scream as the past reluctantly gives
up its ghosts in this beautiful, enticing, and engrossing
novel."
—4 1/2 stars, RT Bookclub Magazine
"This is an accomplished novel
about loss and renewal, and readers will be taken with the
people and stories of Pawleys Island."
— Booklist
"An engaging read with a delicious
taste of the mysterious."
—New York Times bestselling author
Haywood Smith
"A story as rich as a coastal summer…dark
secrets, heartache, a magnificent South Carolina setting,
and a great love story."
—New York Times Bestselling Author
Deborah Smith.
"Karen White's novel is as lush
as the Lowcountry, where the characters' wounded souls come
home to mend in unexpected and magical ways."
—Patti Callahan Henry, award-winning
author of Losing the Moon.
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