Gathering Shadows David Johnson black-haired Reed Tyler had worked

black-haired Reed Tyler had worked Miss Hattie's farm--and dreamed of one day settling down on his own piece of land with the pretty young woman he'd sworn to marry

a myth of American character before its corruption

comprised of two beings

Mia Fontaine describes her refuge in the seedy underworld of felons and addicts as well as the jarring shock of the extreme

Her disinherited brother

Gathering Shadows David Johnson black-haired Reed Tyler had workedWynter Evans is a promising young reporter for a television station in St. Louis, but even a bright future doesn't take away her pain over the disappearance of her brother nine years ago. So when she stumbles across a photograph of a boy with an eerie resemblance to him, she can't pass up the chance to track him down. With research for work as her cover, she sets out with one of the station's photogs for the place where the picture was taken: the town