Under An Indiana Sky

All of us know someone whose life has been touched by an addiction.

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 “…a heart pounding page turner that ultimately offers hope and redemption. Lynne Hugo is the real deal."

Alice Elliott Dark, author of Fellowship Point and In the Gloaming

“This is a superbly rendered story of addiction and Hugo is exquisitely exacting in her portrayal of the progression of drug dependency and the impact on everyone involved. Sharp, sensitive and insightful, Under an Indiana Sky is an important novel, one of darkness and loss, but also one of courage, unexpected kindness and hope.” Donna Everhart, USA Today bestselling author of Women of a Promiscuous Nature

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A gritty, propulsive, and heart-rending novel for our time. Award-winning author Lynne Hugo masterfully portrays the spreading devastation of rural crime in this gripping story of fractured families, addiction, unbearable grief, and the fragile threads that desperate survivors weave together to fight back. This complex, emotional and timely novel features Denise, Nora, Mercedes and Julie, the women closest to Brock and Angie, a romantically-tied couple who each slide into opiate addiction, until their families, blindsided by separate discoveries, reluctantly meet in the center of a widening tragedy.

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Denise has been suspicious of her sister Angie's boyfriend, Brock, from the start and not only because Angie wants time off from caring for their disabled mother to date him, which means Denise has to pick up the slack.  Exactly what “business” is this shady guy in? Even Brock’s mother Nora, a widowed, well-known artist enjoying her new romance, would like to know that. Only a few observant people have an idea what might be going on after Angie is injured and pain pills are prescribed at the hospital. Denise's daughter Julie, just fourteen, notices as Angie sickens. Mercedes, a bar keeper friend to Brock, realizes what he’s into and then, the danger he's in--and why. 
 
One of them will die. 

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And then another. The police will call that death an accident, too. But maybe they didn't see a reason to consider murder?
 
Can the guilty and the betrayed survivors trust and forgive each other? Enough to work together to bring the biggest dealer to justice? Are hope and tenderness ever possible again?

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“Author Lynne Hugo renders—with unflinching honesty and quiet heartbreak—how this crisis touches more lives than we ever imagine, and whether those left behind can still find their way to justice, to forgiveness, and finally, to hope.” Randy Susan Meyers, international bestselling author of The Murderer’s Daughters and The Many Mothers of Ivy Puddingstone