<p><strong>"A delightful Southern story extolling the deep bond of sisters, Lauren Denton’s?<em>A Place to?Land</em>?has a heartwarming tone as it unravels a 40-year-old mystery coming back to haunt a cast of small-town characters whose lives are entwined in Sugar Bend, Alabama." --<em>New York Journal of Books.</em></strong></p><p>Violet Figg and her sister Trudy have lived a quiet life in Sugar Bend, Alabama, since a night forty years ago that stole Trudy''s voice and cemented Violet''s role as her sister''s fierce and loyal protector. Now Trudy spends her days making sculptures from found objects and speaking through notes written on scraps of paper, while Violet runs their art shop, monitors bird activity up and down the water, and tries not to think of the one great love she gave up to keep her sister safe.</p><p>Eighteen-year-old Maya knows where everyone else belongs, but she''s been searching for her own place since her grandmother died seven years ago. Moving in and out