Title: Nightwoods Author: Charles Frazier (#1 New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain) Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Year: 2011 Pages: 259 Format: Paperback Condition: Very Good

The main lesson Luce had learned was that you couldn't count on anybody.

In the lonesome beauty of the forest, across the far shore of the mountain lake from town, Luce acts as caretaker to an empty, decaying Lodge, a relic of holidaymakers a century before. Her days are long and peaceful, her nights filled with Nashville radio and yellow lights shimmering on the black water. A solitary life, and the perfect escape.

Until the stranger children come.

Bringing fire. And murder. And love.

Praise for Thirteen Moons and Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier's previous novels:

"A romance of love, of friendship, of family, of land. Frazier has inhaled the spirit of the age and breathes it into the reader's being" - The Times

"A poetic account of hardship, violence and longing... above all a sustained flight of the imagination" - Daily Telegraph

"A beautiful book written in exquisite prose" - Kate Atkinson