Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters
Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters by Emily Carpenter, published by Amazon Publishing in 2020, is a work of fiction that delves into the complex legacy of a faith healer. The story follows Eve Candler, the granddaughter of the renowned evangelist Dove Jarrod, who grapples with the truth behind her grandmother’s life as a con artist. As a documentary team investigates Dove’s past, Eve faces threats from a stranger intent on revealing a dark secret that could shatter her family’s reputation.
Readers will encounter a narrative that intertwines themes of deception and survival, set against the backdrop of the Southern Gothic tradition. The plot unfolds in 1934 Tuscaloosa, where a young orphan escapes a psychiatric hospital and becomes entangled with the Hawthorn Sisters, leading to both new opportunities and perilous challenges. As Eve collaborates with an investigative filmmaker to uncover the truth, the story explores the lengths one will go to protect family and confront the shadows of the past. This edition comprises 332 pages and is presented in English.
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The bestselling author of Burying the Honeysuckle Girls returns to uncover a faith healer’s elusive and haunted past.
Dove Jarrod was a renowned evangelist and faith healer. Only her granddaughter, Eve Candler, knows that Dove was a con artist. In the eight years since Dove’s death, Eve has maintained Dove’s charitable foundation–and her lies. But just as a documentary team wraps up a shoot about the miracle worker, Eve is assaulted by a vengeful stranger intent on exposing what could be Dove’s darkest secret: murder…
Tuscaloosa, 1934: a wily young orphan escapes the psychiatric hospital where she was born. When she joins the itinerant inspirational duo the Hawthorn Sisters, the road ahead is one of stirring new possibilities. And with an obsessive predator on her trail, one of untold dangers. For a young girl to survive, desperate choices must be made.
Now, to protect her family, Eve will join forces with the investigative filmmaker and one of Dove’s friends, risking everything to unravel the truth behind the accusations against her grandmother. But will the truth set her free or set her world on fire?
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