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High Water

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Format: Hardcover, 336pp. ISBN: 0805067566 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated Pub. Date: June 2002 Edition Desc: 1ST "When Georgie Smallwood's mother dies suddenly and of mysterious causes, it isn't long before Georgie's suspicions turn to her father. Fielding Smallwood, an ex-marine, was involved in a notorious scandal when Georgie was a small child; that scandal ended his career and cast a shadow over the Smallwood name and their hometown of Beaufort, South Carolina. A difficult man with complicated personal standards, Fielding had not enjoyed a happy relationship with his wife in the wake of his discharge from the marines, and he has long struggled with his dissapointment in Georgie's siblings, Ashby and Claire, and an ever-growing estrangement from the headstrong Georgie." But family ties are hard to sever, and Ashby and Claire remain vulnerable and devoted to their father, refusing to believe he could have had a hand in their mother's death. Then Fielding is murdered and Claire is implicated. As surely as the death of their mother united the Smallwood siblings, the death of their father rips them apart. When Georgie attempts to piece together her personal and family life, she finds that the evidence of her father's betrayal and the secrets of his past threaten the very survival of what family she has left, and give her insight into the complex motivations of a father who lived by a code that destroyed him from the inside out.