Carley's Song

The year is 1950, and overseas, a war rages in Korea. But the small North Carolina town of Job’s Corner has conflicts of its own, and more secrets than Carley Marshall can keep track of.Poised at the edge of a mystifying adult world, twelve-year-old Carley grapples with complexities she doesn’t understand. Why the prickly tension between the beautiful divorcee, Maddie Raeburn, and the school principal, Jerry Donaldson? What lies behind the sudden and disturbing change in behavior of Grace, Uncle Stephen and Aunt Kate’s maid? How did Emily, Maddie’s sister-in-law, acquire her broken jaw and bruised face?As the web of circumstances, relationships, and faith that surrounds her grows increasingly intricate, Carley makes a shocking discovery at the on the town’s outskirts, and a longstanding mystery suddenly becomes something much more sinister. One very ugly skeleton has popped out of someone’s closet. But whose? The futures of innocent people hang in the balance as Job’s Corner digs to get at the root of its deepest, darkest secret of all.