Jorjeana Marie

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Jorjeana Marie

Aside from the occasional homeless train jumper, nothing much exciting rolls through Violet Whites sleepy seaside town…until River West comes along. River rents the guesthouse behind Violets crumbling Maine estate, and as strange, scary things grip her town, Violet begins to wonder about the boy living in her backyard. Is River just a crooked-smiling liar with sweet eyes and a mysterious past? Or could he be something more? When Violet uncovers secrets hidden in the walls of her crumbling old house that tie her family to Rivers, those carefully preserved clues raise more questions than answers, and bring to light more twisted family secrets than they lay to rest. Violets grandmother had always warned her about the Devil, had talked about him as if he were a best friend, or an old lover. But she never told Violet that the Devil could be a pretty boy who likes coffee, who kisses you in a cemetery,…who makes you fall in love. The novel has a lush, atmospheric setting and captures the still heat of a small-town summer so vividly that you will feel you are part of Violets world. Once you get caught up in that world, it will be hard to leave it.