NYT Bestselling Author Karen White launches “The Night the Lights Went Out”

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia. It’s not her first time starting over, but her efforts at a new beginning aren’t helped by an anonymous local blog that dishes about the scandalous events that caused her marriage to fail.

Merilee finds some measure of peace in the cottage she is renting from town matriarch Sugar Prescott. Though stubborn and irascible, Sugar sees something of herself in Merilee, something that allows her to open up about her own colorful past.

Sugar’s stories give Merilee a different perspective on the town and its wealthy school moms in their tennis whites and shiny SUVs, and even on her new friendship with Heather Blackford. Merilee is charmed by the glamorous young mother’s seemingly perfect life and finds herself drawn into Heather’s world.

In a town like Sweet Apple, where sins and secrets are as likely to be found behind the walls of gated mansions as in the dark woods surrounding Merilee’s house, appearance is everything. But just how dangerous that deception can be will shock all three women….

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Karen White is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of what she refers to as ‘grit lit,’ Southern women’s fiction. Best known for her bestselling mystery series set in Charleston, Karen hails from a long line of Southerners.

She spent most of her growing-up years in London and is a graduate of the American School there. She lives near Atlanta with her husband, two children and Quincy, the spoiled Havanese dog who appears in several of her books.

Karen White’s books have been nominated for numerous national prizes including the SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) Fiction Book of the Year, and she has twice won the National Readers’ Choice Award. Many of her 22 novels have appeared on various bestseller lists.

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