Anywhere You Run (#1,117) is Wanda M. Morris' second book, and if anything, it's even better than her first: All Her Little Secrets. So glad you pulled that manuscript with your heroine's "jiggly bits" back out of drawer after you thought no one would want to read about her, Ms. Morris!
This is historical fiction set in 1960s Mississippi, not a safe place for black families to be living. Violet and her sister Marigold are all that are left of their family, living in an uneasy truce in their childhood home. That is until the night Violet is forced to grab her few belongings to elope with a man she sees only as a ticket out of town. In the meantime, Marigold has a secret of her own. She had aspirations to become a lawyer, but her work at a Civil Rights Center in Jackson hasn't turned out the way she planned. When a man comes knocking on her door looking for Violet and begins following her as well, she takes what she thinks is going to be the easy way out - marriage to a man she doesn't love. Neither sister has chosen a safe or easy path, but with a menacing man in pursuit of both of them, things take an ugly and dangerous turn.
The point of view keeps changing from character to character as the story progresses, filling in some of the blanks as Marigold tries to adjust to life in Detroit while Violet hides out in a small Georgia town. The tension keeps ratcheting up as Mercer Buggs comes ever closer to his targets. Will either sister survive, much less find any kind of happiness?
A great read that's hard to put down.
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