Flight Risk

A woman is forced to face her past in a heartbreaking and triumphant novel of old wounds and family secrets by award-winning author Joy Castro. Isabel Morales is a successful Chicago sculptor hiding a brutal family historyone not even her husband knows. After decades of turning her back on her past, shes forced to return to Appalachia when she receives news of her estranged mothers death. But going back means revisiting the traumatic childhood she escapedand the family that cast her out when she needed them most. Back on the land she has inherited, shes flooded with memories of the forest where she once roamed free, of her beloved lost brother, and of the old house in the West Virginia hills where she grew up. Her mother has left her another legacy, too, which reveals secrets that Isabel is only beginning to understand. As forces bear down and threaten to take what she has left, its time for Isabel to step into her power, reclaim her roots, and finally confront the painful memories that have kept her from the life she truly wants.