The Lightning Within Us
By Mary Emerick
Release Date: April 16, 2024
In the tinder-dry summer of 1978, two girls hiked up an Idaho mountain and only one returned. Now, fifteen years later, Lina Hudson lives in isolation on the rim of Hells Canyon in eastern Oregon, ever haunted by a memory.
But a strange and unsigned postcard suggests that perhaps her once best friend is still alive. To know the truth, Lina must return to the town that was destroyed by fire and face the agonizing memories of the people who still live there. She will not be welcome.
Meet The Author
Mary Emerick
Mary Emerick is the author of three previous books: The Geography of Water, Fire in the Heart: a memoir of friendship, loss and wildfire; and The Last Layer of the Ocean: kayaking through love and loss on Alaska’s wild coast.
She has also contributed many nature-based essays in anthologies and journals. Some of her best ideas come from long distance hiking. She would rather be a nomad, but lives happily in a log cabin in the mountains of Eastern Oregon. When not writing, she can be found chasing after three huskies, hiking long distance trails and chopping firewood.
The Lightning Within Us
Names: Emerick, Mary, author.
Title: The Lightning Within Us / Mary Emerick.
Description: McCall, ID: Hidden Shelf Publishing House, 2024.
Summary:
Set in the isolated mountains of central Idaho and on the rim of Hells Canyon in eastern Oregon. It is 1993, but for Lina Hudson, time stopped in the tinder-dry summer of 1978.
Fifteen years ago, two girls hiked up a mountain and only one returned. Now Lina lives in isolation, haunted by the memory of her role in her friend Cassie’s death. But when she receives what appears to be a postcard from a dead woman, she realizes that everything she remembers about that night is wrong.
To know the truth, she must return to the town that was destroyed by fire and to the long memories of the people who live there, whether it is safe to do so or not.
Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data
Names: Emerick, Mary, author.
Title: The Lightning Within Us / Mary Emerick.
Description: McCall, ID: Hidden Shelf Publishing House, 2024.
Identifiers: ISBN 978-1-955893-36-7 (paperback) | 978-1-955893-37-4 (epub) | 978-1-955893-38-1 (Kindle) Subjects: LCSH Twins–Fiction. | Idaho–Fiction. | Oregon–Fiction.| Wildfires–Fiction. | FICTION / Disaster | FICTION / Family Life / General | FICTION/ Small Town & Rural | FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense | FICTION / Nature & the Environment Classification: LCC PS3605 .M47 L54 2024 | DDC 813.6–dc23
PUBLICATION DETAILS
Publication Date: 4/16/2024
Title: The Lightning Within Us
Author: Mary Emerick
Publisher: Hidden Shelf Publishing House
Distribution: IngramSpark, Kindle Direct Publishing, Amazon, Apple iBooks, Overdrive, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google Play
ISBN 978-1-955893-36-7 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-955893-37-4 (epub)
ISBN 978-1-955893-38-1 (Kindle)
Paperback Price: $17.99
Ebook Price: $7.99
FICTION / Small Town & Rural
FICTION / Nature & the Environment
FICTION / Disaster
FICTION / Family Life / General
FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
Page Count: 234
Trim Size: 5.5 X 8.5
