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Lucy Miller Brown has seen too many tragedies in her thirty-three years. Still struggling to survive her veteran husband's death, she works tirelessly to create a good life for her three children and aging grandmother on the farm that has supported their family for multiple generations. With her family thriving and a bumper crop of fruits and vegetables ripening in the fields, Lucy finally feels a satisfying sense of control. But she can't control the weather. Hurricane Florence barrels into the North Carolina coast as a Cat 1, leaving behind normal destruction-nothing Lucy can't handle. But then the storm stalls and dumps over thirty inches of rain in less than three days, causing the rivers to rise to unprecedented levels. Following a harried middle-of-the-night escape to the loft of their tractor shed, Lucy guards her family as she watches the tannin stained water of the Black River swallow up their home and farm and threaten to overtake their refuge. Feeling lost and helpless, Lucy prays for help. The answer to those prayers arrives in the form of a man and his teenage son in a jonboat-strangers Lucy is fearful to trust. But with the water still rising, what other option does she have? Relinquishing much of the independence and control Lucy has fought so hard to achieve, she must make difficult decisions for the survival and future of her family.

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Ramsey's vivid and heartfelt novel chronicles the experience of a single mother in the face of a devastating hurricane...Lucy Brown is a likable, admirable character whose determination to protect her family is clear....[Ramsey] writes about a natural disaster with clear knowledge and sensitivity. - The Booklife Prize

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Cindy Horrell Ramsey lives on a barrier island in North Carolina where she loves to ride her bike, hunt for shells, and walk on the beach--especially at sunrise, sunset, or during heavy fog. Ramsey enjoyed an eclectic working career that feeds her writing as does her love of nature and life in the South. Ramsey earned a BA in English and a MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. While fueled by her literary training, Ramsey's books lean more toward commercial accessibility. Varying in content and genre, they all share one thing in common--Ramsey writes about things that matter.

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