Nineteen Seventy-Two

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Seven Siblings. Seven Years. Seven Spellbinding Novels.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>1972. New Orleans. The remaining six Deschanel siblings live with their long-suffering mother outside New Orleans in the historic family plantation. Each of them unique. Each of them born with a gift. In some cases a gift they wish they could give back.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Two years have passed since the tragic loss of one of the seven. Life goes on but no one is the same. Charles the playboy spirals further into the comfort of depravity. Augustus the fixer buries his heartache in business. Colleen the adherent falls deeper into her own escape her education. Evangeline the genius discovers a life outside her studies but at a dark cost. And Maureen the haunted takes back her power only to find her autonomy is a false promise like so many other things in the lives of a Deschanel.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And Elizabeth the anguished knows what the others do not. She carries the burden of this knowledge as she carries all the family's bleakest moments.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If they thought 1970 was the last of their heartache they were dead wrong.</span></p>