Bill is a gifted and successful surgeon, a paragon of the community, while Eugene, the town reprobate, is a failed writer and determined alcoholic. Eugene moves farther and farther away from his brother, the cautious and dutiful Bill, and when Ligeia vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, the growing rift between the two brothers becomes immutable.ĭecades later, their relationship is still turbulent, and the once close brothers now lead completely different lives.

But just as the movement s youthful optimism turns dark elsewhere in the country that summer, so does Eugene and Ligeia s brief romance. Ligeia introduces him to the thrills and pleasures of the counterculture movement, then in its headiest moment.

A sexy, free-spirited redhead from Daytona Beach banished to their small North Carolina town until the fall, Ligeia will not only bewitch the two brothers, but lure them into a struggle that reveals the hidden differences in their natures.ĭrawn in by her raw sensuality and rebellious attitude, Eugene falls deeper under her spell. While swimming in a secluded creek on a hot Sunday in 1969, sixteen-year-old Eugene and his older brother, Bill, meet the entrancing Ligeia. New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash demonstrates his superb narrative skills in this suspenseful and evocative tale of two brothers whose lives are altered irrevocably by the events of one long-ago summer and one bewitching young woman and the secrets that could destroy their lives.

The Risen by Ron Rash