# Valley of Ashes

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- Book: [Valley of Ashes](https://www.bookquiver.com/cornelia-read/valley-of-ashes) ([Valley of Ashes.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/cornelia-read/valley-of-ashes.md))
- Authors: [Cornelia Read](https://www.bookquiver.com/cornelia-read)
- Publisher: grand_central_publishing
- ISBN: 978-04-4651-136-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2012-09-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Madeline Dare trades New York's gritty streets for the tree-lined avenues of Boulder, Colorado when her husband Dean lands a promising job. Madeline, now mother to beautiful toddler twin girls and a full-time homemaker, has achieved everything she thought she always wanted but with her husband constantly on the road, she's fighting a losing battle against the Betty Friedan riptide of suburban/maternal exhaustion, angst and sheer loneliness. A new freelance newspaper gig helps her get her mojo back but Boulder isn't nearly as tranquil as it seems: there's a serial arsonist at large in the city. As Madeline closes in on the culprit, the fires turn deadly - and the stakes tragically personal. She'll need every ounce of strength and courage she has to keep the flames from reaching her own doorstep, threatening all she holds most dear.