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#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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