In 1957, Mary Alice McDonnell was a rebellious teenager in love with a rich Yankee boy, Michael Harrison, who had just moved to her small Virginia mountain town - much to the chagrin of her strict, God-fearing mother, Lavinia.

By 2004, Mary Alice has become a sixty-three year old spinster Biology teacher who hasn't spoken to her mother in over forty years.

When Lavinia dies, Mary Alice's graduate-student niece, Claire, inherits the family house and moves to Virginia, bringing along a deep curiosity about her family's dark past, as well as news of the long-lost Michael Harrison - and plenty of emotional baggage of her own.

Beneath the Pines is to be published in September 2008 by Two Dollar Radio. For more information, visit the Publisher's website.

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