Gone Too Long: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Two-time Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy entangles visitors inside a heart-pounding story of two women battling for success against a century’s well worth of hate.

On your day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her yard, ten-year-old Beth disappears from her Simmonsville, Georgia home. Equipped with skills sharpened while looking after an alcoholic mother, she must fight to survive the days and months forward.

Seven years later on, Imogene Coulter is burying her father–a about Eliminated Too Long: A Book Klan leader she’s spent her life distancing herself from–and trying to escape the memories his funeral evokes. But Imogene is compelled to confront secrets long held by the town and her personal family when, while clearing out her father’s obvious hideout on the day of his funeral, she discovers a child. Adolescent and alive, within an abandoned cellar, and behind a door that only locks from the exterior.

As Imogene begins to uncover the reality of what happened to young Beth all those years ago, her father’s heir-apparent towards the Klan’s leadership threatens her and her family members. Driven by a love that stretches beyond the ties of bloodstream, Imogene struggles to save a girl she never knew but will today be bound to forever, and to conserve herself and the ones dearest to her. Firmly coiled and chilling, Eliminated TOO MUCH TIME ensnares, twists, and exposes the high cost we are prepared to pay for the ones we like.