When a beautiful 16-year-old girl named Sophie is found sequestered in a cage-like room in a rundown house in the desolate hills of Arbon Valley, Idaho, the entire community is shocked to learn she is the legendary Callidora--a baby girl who was kidnapped from her crib almost seventeen years ago and canonized in missing posters with portraits of what the fabled girl might resemble. Authorities soon learn that the cage was there to protect people from Sophie, because her biological father believes she is cursed.
Sophie is discovered after the man she knows as Papa, shoots and injures Damien, a young man who is trying to rescue her. Now, unsocialized and thrust into the world, and into a family she has never met, Sophie must decide whether she should accept her Papa’s claims that she is cursed and he was only trying to protect others, or trust the new people in her life who have their own agendas. Guided by a wise cousin, Sophie realizes that her most heartbreaking challenge is to decide if her love for Damien will destroy him like her Papa claims, or free her from past demons that haunt her mind.
The Color of Snow is an emotional story of family, abduction, illness and finding one's way. Stolen by her father when she was a baby, Sophie grew up in isolation, believed to have a curse. The Color of Snow flips from the present to the past, so the reader can learn the actions leading up to Sophie's abduction and what is happening to her once she is free and realizes that everything she believed was mostly lies.
With realistic characters, each with their own demons and beliefs, a young romance, family drama and secrets and fantastic writing, The Color of Snow will leave you breathless with anticipation as the events unfold, past and present. Highly recommend!
Brenda Stanley is the former news anchor at her NBC affiliate KPVI in Eastern Iadho. Her writing has been recognized by the Scripps Howard Foundation, the Hearst Journalism Awards, the Idaho Press Club and the Society for Professional Journalists. She is a graduate of Dixie College in St. George, Utah, and the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Brenda lived for two years in Ballard, Utah, within the Fort Duchesne reservation where the novel is set. She and her husband live on a small ranch near the Snake River with their horses and dogs. http://www.brendastanleybooks.net/
*I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Wendy, thanks for the thumbs-up!
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