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GRISHAM JOHN CAMINO GHOSTS

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Escape to Camino Island  where bookseller Bruce Cable and
novelist Mercer Mann always manage to find trouble in paradise.     Don’t miss John Grisham’s
upcoming Framed  his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man !   Mercer Mann  a popular
writer from Camino Island  is back on the beach  marrying her boyfriend  Thomas  in a seaside
ceremony. Bruce Cable  infamous owner of Bay Books  performs the wedding. Afterward  Bruce
tells Mercer that he has stumbled upon an incredible story. Mercer desperately needs an idea
for her next novel  and Bruce now has one.   The true story is about Dark Isle  a sliver of a
barrier island not far off the North Florida coast. It was settled by freed slaves three
hundred years ago  and their descendants lived there until 1955  when the last one was forced
to leave. That last descendant is Lovely Jackson  elderly now  who loves her birthplace and its
remarkable history. But now Tidal Breeze  a huge  ruthless corporate developer  wants to build
a resort and casino on the island  which Lovely knows  deep down  is rightfully hers.   Mercer
befriends Lovely  and they plunge into an enormous fight over who owns Dark Isle  taking on
Tidal Breeze Corporation  its lawyers  lobbyists  and powerful Florida politicians. But Lovely
knows something about the island that could seriously cloud the dollar signs in the developer’s
eyes: the island is cursed. It has remained uninhabited for nearly a century for some very real
and very troubling reasons. The deep secrets of the past are about to collide with the enormous
ambitions of the present  and the fate of Dark Isle—and Camino Island  too—hangs in the
balance.    Look for all of John Grisham’s rollicking Camino novels:   Camino Island   Camino
Winds   Camino Ghosts

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