What Amazon says: “January 1987, Small Plains, Kansas. On the night of the decade’s worst blizzard, a boy discovers the naked corpse of a beautiful girl. No-one can identify her, so the people of the town bury her with a gravestone marked with the date and ‘Peace Be Unto You’.
Seventeen years later, the mysterious dead girl – the ‘Virgin of Small Plains’ – has inspired a local myth. In the two decades since her death, strange miracles have visited those who faithfully tend her grave; some believe her spirit can cure deadly illnesses, while others credit her with the town’s economic prosperity. Word of the legend spreads and Small Plains becomes a haven for an onslaught of spiritual seekers and the terminally ill, all hoping the Virgin will answer their prayers.
When the mysterious Mitch Newquist reappears and a vengeful tornado devastates Small Plains, the truth begins to emerge…..What really happened seventeen years ago? Why did Mitch suddenly disappear the same night the Virgin’s body was found – abandoning his first love, Abby Reynolds? And why are some of the town’s leading citizens so determined that the truth remain buried? “
What I thought: I read this book in just over a day, staying up into the night as I couldn’t tear myself away from it. It’s one of those books where you promise yourself that this will be the last chapter, and then you say just one more….and so on!
This is the story of a young girl who is found naked and frozen to death in one of the worst blizzards the town on Small Plains has ever known. She can’t be identified and so she is buried in an unmarked grave in the towns cemetary. Over the years she becomes known as the Virgin of Small Plains and legend has it that she can cure the sick and so people travel from all over to visit her grave. However, on the night of the blizzard, 18 year old Mitch Newquist vanishes without a word to anyone, leaving a Abby his devastated girlfriend and all his friends. After 17 years Mitch arrives back in Small Plains and it seems that not everyone wants him back. Why do so many people in Small Plains want him gone again and what are they hiding about that night in the snow storm 17 years ago?
This is a fantastic page-turner and I highly recommend. I hope you enjoy as much as I did.
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