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Mercury


A Literary Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Family Saga,
  • Coming-of-Age,
  • 1990s Pennsylvania
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Blue-collar family sagas with secrets buried in small towns
  • Complicated found-family dynamics anchored by a strong female lead
  • Stories where old wounds resurface after an unsettling discovery
Publisher Description

A roofing family's bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart of their blue-collar town.

It's 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone's table and a family of her own.

The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun.

The Joseph brothers become Marley's whole world before she can blink. Soon, she is young wife to one, The One Who Got Away to another, and adopted mother to them all.

As their own mother fades away and their roofing business crumbles under the weight of their unwieldy father's inflated ego, Marley steps in to shepherd these unruly men.

Years later, an eerie discovery in the church attic causes old wounds to resurface and suddenly the family's survival hangs in the balance.

With Marley as their light, the Joseph brothers must decide whether they can save the family they've always known—or whether together they can build something stronger in its place.

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