{"product_id":"guide-me-home-9780316494595","title":"Guide Me Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this stunning culmination of the award-winning Highway 59 trilogy, Detective Darren Mathews is pulled out of an early retirement to investigate the case of a missing black college student from an all-white sorority--and soon finds a town that will stop at nothing to keep its secrets hidden​. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Texas Ranger Darren Mathews isn't sure he's been a good cop, but believes he's got a shot at being a good man--if he manages to dodge the potential indictment hanging over his head and if he, from here on out, pledges allegiance to the truth. It's a virtue the country appears to have wholly lost its grip on, but one Darren sees as his salvation. He is in the midst of remaking his life with the woman he loves, hoping for the peace of country living at his beloved farmhouse, when he is visited by someone who couldn't hold the truth on her tongue if it was dipped in sugar, a woman who's always been bent of tearing his life apart. His mother. Armed with a tall tale about a missing Black college student, Sera (whose white sorority sisters insist she isn't missing at all). Darren must decide if his can trust his mother is telling the truth--and what her ulterior motive may be, and what if that motive has to do with a grand jury deciding his fate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Darren gets his hooks into the investigation, along the way discovering things about Sera's family and her hometown that are odd at best, vaguely sinister at worst. Hamstrung by local law enforcement and the Texas Rangers who likewise doubt the account of a missing girl, if Darren wants answers, he'll need help from the person whom he swore to never trust again--his mother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this emotionally stirring conclusion to the singular Highway 59 series, set three years after the events of \u003ci\u003eHeaven, My Home, \u003c\/i\u003e Darren reckons with his life's purpose as he's forced to choose between his own peace and the higher call to do good. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, NPR, Amazon Books, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Crime Reads \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAttica Locke\u003c\/b\u003e is a \u003ci\u003eNY Times \u003c\/i\u003ebest-selling author of six novels, including \u003ci\u003eGuide Me Home.\u003c\/i\u003e She is also a winner of an Edgar Award and the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and she has been short listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction and nominated for an LA Times Book Prize and an NAACP Image award for her work as a novelist. Locke is also a screenwriter and TV producer, with credits that include \u003ci\u003eEmpire, When They See Us \u003c\/i\u003eand the Emmy-nominated \u003ci\u003eLittle Fires Everywhere, \u003c\/i\u003efor which she won an NAACP Image award for television writing. She co-created and executive produced an adaptation of her sister Tembi Locke's memoir \u003ci\u003eFrom Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home \u003c\/i\u003efor Netflix. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mulholland Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51580269396242,"sku":"9780316494595","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a67f1f89-b443-4be5-bedc-ef611e53c7ac.jpg?v=1756800251","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/guide-me-home-9780316494595","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}