Dogwood

Youd think she was an angel if she wasnt always flying so close to hell.Released from prison on probation 19-year-old Harper Haley returns to the brutal sweaty dogwood scented landscape of her youth. Chronicling her homecoming and struggle for rehabilitation this is the story of one girls sin guilt and resurrection.At the heart of the novel is the dangerous obsessive sisterhood between Harper and her childhood friends Collier a seductively destructive debutante and Caro a jaded dreamer yearning for escape. As Harper backslides into a violent cycle of sex drugs and abuse the sisterhood at the core of her identity and of the story begins to unravel.Climaxing in the confession of the act that irreversibly altered her life and those closest to her Dogwood is Harpers story the one she cant forget and the one she cannot speak.