What Was Left

Rachel Collier has spent eighteen years under her father's thumb, and the summer of 1991 was supposed to be her first taste of freedom. Instead, he sends her to a farm in rural Georgia to care for the grandmother she barely knows, in a town where her family's arrival is the most interesting thing to happen in years.Then she meets Wesley Davis, the neighbor she has been warned to stay away from, and freedom starts to look like something else entirely. But the closer Rachel and Wesley grow, the more the silence between their families begins to crack, until the two of them uncover a secret that was buried decades before either of them was born.That secret began in 1952, when Genevieve and Jed Collier inherited sixty acres of debt and a marriage that desperation slowly pulled apart. What they did to survive that summer never stayed buried. It only waited.Moving between time periods, What Was Left is a sweeping Southern novel about inheritance and infidelity, controlling fathers and the children who finally stop obeying them, and a love that refuses to die even when everything stands against it. For readers of Kristin Hannah and Delia Owens who love family secrets that take a generation to surface.