Violet Blue

Things aren't always what they seem... sometimes, they're better. Laura Bennett is bored. Divorced and grieving after the death of her mother, she takes the advice of her adventurous best friend and does the craziest thing she's ever done in her life. Sawyer Griffin is a country music superstar who has burned out and gone home to January Cove for a break. But when he meets the new woman in town - in the most unusual way - he decides to keep a big secret about himself that could put their friendship - and possible relationship - in jeopardy. Can opposites attract when neither person is who they seem to be? This is book 8 of the January Cove series. Although it's best to read the series in order, each book stands on its own and can be read out of order.

Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white man who had stolen a black woman. They come at the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly owner of the farm on which the massacres unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the group he will satisfy his wife's dying wishes and cleanse some moral stain from the ground on which he and his family have lived for generations. But the sins of the past will not be so easily expunged. We walk with the ragtag group through this taboo country and note in them glimmers of re-connection with language, lore, country. We learn alongside them how countless generations of Noongar may have lived in ideal rapport with the land. This is a novel of survival and renewal, as much as destruction; and, ultimately, of hope as much as despair.

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