The Bright Lands Free PDF Download

A Best Book of 2020 from Library Journal, CrimeReads, and BookPage Marks the debut of an already accomplished novelist. --John Banville The town of Bentley holds two things dear: its football, and its secrets. But when star quarterback Dylan Whitley goes missing, an unremitting fear grips this remote corner of Texas. Joel Whitley was shamed out of conservative Bentley ten years ago, and while hes finally made a life for himself as a gay man in New York, his younger brothers disappearance soon brings him back to a place he thought hed escaped for good. Meanwhile, Sheriffs Deputy Starsha Clark stayed in Bentley; Joels return brings back painful memories--not to mention questions--about her own missing brother. And in the high school hallways, Dylans friends begin to suspect that their classmates know far more than theyre telling the police. Together, these unlikely allies will stir up secrets their town has long tried to ignore, drawing the attention of dangerous men who will stop at nothing to see that their crimes stay buried. But no one is quite prepared to face the darkness thats begun to haunt their nightmares, whispering about a place long thought to be nothing but an urban legend: an empty night, a flicker of light on the horizon--The Bright Lands. Shocking, twisty and relentlessly suspenseful, John Frams debut is a heart-pounding story about old secrets, modern anxieties and the price young men pay for glory.