And After That, The Dark

Five Stars, Winner of Prestigious Maggie Award

"Charlotte Hughes is the Real thing...One of those Southern Thrillers that never lets up..Exciting Enough to even give terror a good name.-Pat Conroy, author, Prince of Tides

"For those who loved the Southern flavor of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and enjoy Mary Higgins Clark’s edge-of-the-seat suspense. A new voice in romantic suspense. This story and its characters will remain with you long after you’ve turned the last page.” --Janet Evanovich, author Hot Six

This novel, Charlotte's first suspense mystery, after more than 30 novels, won her a Maggie, and a whole new flock of readers.

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As a teenager in a South Carlina backwater-- on a night when the air was hot and thick as amber- Emily Wilkop watched as a man was murdered. For fifteen years she kept still... and paid a devastating price for her silence -- always terrified of the dark, and of the killer who might one day step out again from the shadows.

Now Emily is grown, trying to build a life for herself and her late sister's troubled young daughter, and struggling with her feelings for an ex-big city cop. But the secret she has so carefully guarded is coming back to haunt her -- in a small southern town where everyone keeps their secrets to themselves. ---- Now someone wants to scare Emily-- to death.

AFTER THAT THE DARK can be ordered by clicking on the book at the left.

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