A Moth to Flame

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hard as nails heart-hammering prose punctuated with a lot of heart.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Eryk Pruitt author of <em>Something Bad Wrong</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The story of two sisters Lydia-and Jessica Barrett who is found dead at the bottom of a ravine in 1991 after attending a protest in support of a recently fired popular teacher.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Twenty-five years later Lydia who suffers from nyctophobia (a fear of the night) is a coroner's investigator on the graveyard shift in Los Angeles. A promotion to medical examiner awaits..</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> If</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Lydia can conquer her fear of the dark. Early one morning Lydia encounters a woman whose neck has been broken like her sister's. Checking a missed voicemail Lydia hears a message from the dead woman who claims to have information about Jess.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the modern vein of authors such as Jeffrey Deaver Paula Hawkins and Tana French A MOTH TO FLAME tells the story of a woman in a man's world set against the illusion of perfect suburban lives that are anything but populated with the scariest monsters of all: the ones right in front of our faces that we cannot see through the dark.</span></p>