Slow Dance in Purgatory, Amy Harmon
Slow Dance in Purgatory, Amy Harmon
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Slow Dance in Purgatory

Author: Amy Harmon

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 7 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/11/2014


Synopsis

The hallways are empty, the school day long over, the din of lockers and youthful laughter have dissolved into silence. It's as if the very walls are waiting. And then through the intercom a song starts to crackle, the soundtrack of a forgotten life. And the band begins to sing: "Lovely Maggie falls for Johnny, a boy no one else can see. Heartthrob Johnny, '50s bad boy, trapped for eternity. Lonely boy and lonely girl, unsolved mystery. Maggie and Johnny, only high school sweethearts, because Johnny can't ever leave. Do wop, Do wop . . . "

In 1958, a rumble goes down outside the brand new high school in Honeyville, Texas. Chaos ensues, a life is lost, and Johnny Kinross disappears. But in 2010, someone finds him. Orphaned at the age of ten, seventeen-year-old Maggie O'Bannon finally finds a permanent home with her elderly aunt in a small Texas town. Working part-time as a school janitor, she becomes enmeshed in a fifty-year-old tragedy where nothing is as it seems and the boy of her dreams might vanish when the bell rings.

This volatile and mismatched romance is doomed from its start, as Maggie struggles to hold on to yet another person she is destined to lose. Secret love and hushed affection are threatened by outside forces, resulting in a desperate race to keep a secret no one would understand. Deeply romantic, funny and tender, Slow Dance in Purgatory captures the heartache of a love story where a happy ending might be decades too late.

About Amy Harmon

Amy Harmon is the New York Times bestselling author of A Different Blue, Making Faces, and the Purgatory series. Amy has been a motivational speaker, a teacher, a home school mom, and a member of the Grammy Award-winning Saints Unified Voices Choir, directed by Gladys Knight.


Reviews

Slow Dance in Purgatory begins in 1958 with Johnny preparing to fight some boys from school. While things are heating up between the boys a scene happens that leaves no witnesses to testify to how a boy ends up dead and another ends up missing. Johnny is that missing boy who is now stuck in purgator......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie

This is a sweet romance between Maggie, a 17-year-old who works afternoons as a janitor in her high school, and Johnny, a James Dean-type who was killed almost 50 years earlier on the grounds of the same high school and has been doomed to endlessly roam those halls. Slow Dance in Purgatory is definit......more

Wow. That was completely unexpected. Truth be told, when I read the sample after downloading it onto my kindle, I wasn't all that interested. It didn't do anything for me at the time so I had no intentions of picking it up, though I'd just finished a book and was looking through my samples for some......more