Slow Dance in Purgatory

Purgatory, Book 1

By: Amy Harmon

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

The hallways are empty, the school day long over, the din of lockers and youthful laughter have dissolved into silence. It's as if the very walls are waiting. And then through the intercom a song starts to crackle, the soundtrack of a forgotten life. And the band begins to sing: "Lovely Maggie falls for Johnny, a boy no one else can see. Heartthrob Johnny, '50s bad boy, trapped for eternity. Lonely boy and lonely girl, unsolved mystery. Maggie and Johnny, only high school sweethearts, because Johnny can't ever leave. Do wop, Do wop . . . "

In 1958, a rumble goes down outside the brand-new high school in Honeyville, Texas. Chaos ensues, a life is lost, and Johnny Kinross disappears. But in 2010, someone finds him. Orphaned at the age of 10, 17-year-old Maggie O'Bannon finally finds a permanent home with her elderly aunt in a small Texas town. Working part-time as a school janitor, she becomes enmeshed in a 50-year-old tragedy where nothing is as it seems and the boy of her dreams might vanish when the bell rings.

This volatile and mismatched romance is doomed from its start, as Maggie struggles to hold on to yet another person she is destined to lose. Secret love and hushed affection are threatened by outside forces, resulting in a desperate race to keep a secret no one would understand. Deeply romantic, funny, and tender, Slow Dance in Purgatory captures the heartache of a love story where a happy ending might be decades too late.

©2012 Amy Harmon (P)2014 Tantor

Loved it!

Love Amy Harmon books! She never disappoints. So good! Gotta run listen to the sequel now! Can't wait!

a very satisfying love story

if you can make room in your imagination for a mythical twist to enjoy this love story

Fun Time Travel

Such fun to be in & out of lives & decades of High School ... Plus true feelings of all those High School years....So Many ideas, feelings, actions, words run from decade to decade.....Always with just the right amount of mystery and questions - answerable or not......

Really good

Fast paced interesting suspense and romantic story! Writing style is great, you forget that you are reading. I loved characters and their heart breaking love story. It finished on a cliffhanger and I am relieved that there is book 2

Great Story!

I thought this was a great story. I really enjoy the author. I would highly recommend.