{"product_id":"the-llano-county-mermaid-club-9780826368263","title":"The Llano County Mermaid Club","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook club fiction at its finest as Kathleen Rodgers' novel reaches new heights, and hopefully new audiences, in this marvelous story of a group of girls in northeast New Mexico. Here is regional fiction aspiring for a broader market!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrowing up in the desert town of Sandhill, New Mexico, Marigold Hubbard and her friends wanted only one thing: to see the ocean. The community pool and the nearby Santa Rosa Blue Hole are the closest they can get, and they dream of mermaids while swimming these rare waters. When Marigold learns of the affair between her father and the mother of her best friend, Melody Calloway, the betrayal tears the girls apart. Unmoored from both friends and family, Melody meets a tragic and mysterious end on the shores of the Blue Hole, leaving Marigold no chance to ever reconcile the friendship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Forty years later, Marigold returns to Sandhill to care for her elderly father, but an envelope of old letters and a cryptic message in an abandoned church leads her on a quest to find answers about what really happened to Melody. Threading between past and present, Marigold must piece together the tragic chain of events that led to Melody's death, pursuing questions that may have no easy answers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unm Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/23\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826368263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232","brand":"Kathleen M. Rodgers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51616424067253,"sku":"9780826368263","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0e20bc8d-eed2-4e8c-98fc-6cbc5042a4f2.jpg?v=1756189377","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-llano-county-mermaid-club-9780826368263","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}