Susan Alexander

Allison Recalled Susan Alexander

In the author's previous novel, Spider Song, Marci Gray makes a cameo appearance as an enigmatic woman who drifts into Keene, New Hampshire, and six months later drifts away again. In her wake she leaves many unanswered questions. Who was she? Where had she come from? Where had she gone? Arid why?Allison Recalled picks up her trail and follows her to the small town of Jordan, Ohio. Driven by a growing need to understand her past, and aided by a slender clue indicating Jordan as her birthplace, she settles into the community and initiates a search for the first four years of her life. Jordan seems to dream through the rich autumn season, as innocent as a painting. In those first days, Marci can almost feel that she has stepped into the scene. She locates a charming cottage to rent; she is befriended by one of Jordan's most influential citizens; she meets and quickly becomes involved with a lovely woman. Yet almost immediately a darker side is revealed. As Marci pursues her investigation and begins to discover a history of crime and deception, the sleeping dogs of the past are roused. In an ever-escalating show of force, threats are made, vile pranks are played. Eventually, people die. Moving inexorably towards its bitterly ironic conclusion, ALLISON RECALLED explores the themes of revenge and forgiveness, the price one may pay for truth, and the dark wonders of the twisted strands of good and evil, which occupy the human heart.