Child of God

<B> In this searing novel, bestselling author Lolita Files tells the tale of a Southern family torn apart by the secrets it struggles to keep. </B> <BR> Everybody knows everybody else''s business in Downtown, Tennessee. Neighbors while away afternoons at the local bar, swapping rumors about voodoo, incest, and illegitimate children. Usually they''re gossiping about the Botens. <BR>In this epic saga, Lolita Files unveils the hidden lives of three generations of the Boten clan, a family as cursed by fate as they are blessed with hope. There''s Grandma Amalie, who''s willing to sacrifice everything for her son; there''s Grace, who manages to conceal the identity of her child''s father for more than twenty years; there''s Aunt Sukie, whose strange power over her husband, Walter, is matched only by the strength of her dark magic; and, finally, there''s Lay, whose secret betrayals will set the Boten clan in motion, sending its members on a quest for self-discovery that will lead them from one end of the world to the other.