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Golden State

A Novel

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Golden State

By: Michelle Richmond
Narrated by: Käthe Mazur
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Dr. Julie Walker wakes on a summer morning in San Francisco to find a city in chaos. Today Californians are voting on a controversial ballot initiative that will change history. With the future of the state and the nation uncertain, the streets have erupted into violence.

Injured, Julie must make her way across the city by foot to the Veterans Administration Hospital, where her sister, recently returned from Afghanistan, is in labor. At the hospital a brutal scene is unfolding as a man who shares an intimate past with Julie begins to take his revenge. Throughout the ordeal Julie's estranged husband, desperate for reconciliation, sends out coded messages from the radio station where he is the well-known Voice of Midnight.

Five years in the making, Golden State is both a political thriller and a meditation on marriage, love, and loyalty. Like The Year of Fog, it is a page-turner with a philosophical bent.

©2014 Michelle Richmond (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Contemporary Contemporary Romance Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Romance Romantic Suspense Women's Fiction Suspense Emotionally Gripping

Critic Reviews

"Nearly every feature of this mesmerizing novel is provocative, as Richmond explores the fragmented, hopeful lives of complex characters... Gripping, multilayered, must-read fiction." ( Library Journal)
"Mesmerizing and intricate, Richmond's dissection of a California on the violent brink of secession from the nation provides the backdrop to her deeper inspection of the uneasy, fragile relationship between siblings...[a] riveting read." ( Booklist)
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I had read some of Michelle Richmond's other books, so I chose another one, and this one did not disappoint. It is totally character driven and full of a variety of thoughts about the human condition. The reader is skilled and I found the whole story enjoyable, and thought provoking. Richmond has the ability to weave a loose story around characters who are interesting and believable. For discerning readers who are after something deeper than just a fast paced story.

A great read!

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