Abide with Me

In this novel inspired by Wuthering Heights, a small town bad boy forged by the fires of Afghanistan returns home, still burning with a romantic obsession nothing can quench.

A small-town bad boy, forged into a man in the fires of Afghanistan, returns home, still burning with a romantic obsession nothing can quench.

As the fog lifts one morning, a lone soldier is walking home. Who is he? The sleepy, gossipy town of Hoosick Bridge, Vermont, has forgotten him, but it will soon remember. He is Roy Murphy, returning to face his violent, complicated reputation. Returning to Emma Herrick, descendant of Hoosick Bridge's first family, who occupies its grandest, now decaying, house: the Heights.

Their intense and unlikely adolescent romance provided scandalous gossip for the town. The young lovers escaped Hoosick Bridge, but Emma remained Roy's obsession long after they parted. Now Roy returns from Afghanistan a changed and extraordinary man who will stop at nothing to obtain a piece of the Herricks' legacy.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 03/05/2013
ISBN: 9781451667028
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Library Journal 10/15/2012 pg. 73
Booklist 12/01/2012 pg. 20
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2013
Romantic Times 03/01/2013 pg. 40 - Good
People 04/01/2013 pg. 54