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Penance
Paperback
Publisher: Longshore Rebel Press
Published: Jan 3 2026
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An unsolved crime from the past returns to haunt a small town just beginning to resurrect itself from its own death.
It's the archetypal struggle of small Southern towns-how to move on, and what to keep from the wreckage of its past. A new company comes in; its CEO gets the chance to emerge from his own dark place; the town quietly resents it, but accepts the salvation it may bring.
Ranse Moore, whose family historically gave the town its name, has discovered the meaning of penance and hubris and has come to realize he's done all he can and has to move on, too.
And Sara, a local celebrity, an artist and teacher raising a teenaged daughter on her own, recognizes that not all bombs are real, that some do their damage and clear a new way forward. For her, the hardest part of dealing with the destruction will be figuring out if she can let go of the men in her life who have controlled decisions she has to make on her own.
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