Scar Atlas

"ADDICTIVE AND ULTIMATELY REWARDING!" "POIGNANT...BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN. A MASTERPIECE." "A BRILLIANT STUDY OF CLASS, CULTURE AND MORALITY.""My questions outnumbered my answers after the events of that night, the most prominent being the secret of Rosemary's scars. They had been simply a part of her until tonight. But now I knew why she covered them. The mere thought of them conjured a memory so painful that she had not been able to properly accept it as reality. "A hideous reminder," she'd said. A reminder of the last thought that flitted through my mind before I joined my new lover in the world of dreams." Scar Atlas is Paul Koppisch's intriguing portrait of Leila Wilde, a young woman trying to escape her mundane existence in 1920s Virginia. Yearning for freedom and flight, Leila accepts a job as a personal companion to a wealthy, secretive woman who has just moved into a renovated Antebellum-period plantation house outside of town, the same property where Leila was assaulted as a child. Through her relationship with her beautiful but enigmatic employer and the unique cast of other characters working in the woman's home who seemed to have washed up on this island of misfit toys, Leila comes to terms with her past, her treatment of those she loves, and the nature of her own life.

Pagina's: 506, Paperback, Independently published