Two-time Edgar Award-winning writer Lori Roy entangles visitors in a heart-pounding story of two women battling for success against a century’s worthy of of hate.

On your day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front yard, ten-year-old Beth disappears from her Simmonsville, Georgia home. Armed with skills sharpened while caring for an alcoholic mom, she must battle to survive the times and months ahead.

Seven years afterwards, Imogene Coulter is burying her father–a about Gone TOO MUCH TIME: A Book Klan leader she has spent her life distancing herself from–and trying to escape the memories his funeral evokes. But Imogene can be compelled to confront secrets lengthy held by the city and her very own family members when, while clearing out her father’s obvious hideout on the day of his funeral, she finds a child. Adolescent and alive, in an empty basement, and behind a door that just locks from the exterior.

While Imogene begins to discover the truth of what happened to youthful Beth those years ago, her father’s heir-apparent towards the Klan’s command threatens her and her family members. Driven with a love that stretches beyond the ties of blood, Imogene struggles to save lots of a girl she never knew but will today be destined to forever, and to conserve herself and the ones dearest to her. Firmly coiled and chilling, Gone TOO MUCH TIME ensnares, twists, and exposes the high price we are willing to pay for the types we love.