Author of 'Providence' to be at Barnes & Noble book signing July 6

Posted 6/28/18

Barnes & Noble Warwick will host best selling author Caroline Kepnes for a discussion and book signing on Friday, July 6 at 7 p.m. for her new book, Providence, at 1350 Bald Hill Road, Warwick. Providence is a pulse-pounding novel that explores the

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Author of 'Providence' to be at Barnes & Noble book signing July 6

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Barnes & Noble Warwick will host best selling author Caroline Kepnes for a discussion and book signing on Friday, July 6 at 7 p.m. for her new book, Providence, at 1350 Bald Hill Road, Warwick. Providence is a pulse-pounding novel that explores the extremes of wonder and horror, love and loss and is as unique as it is classic. It’s a romance, a detective novel and a thriller, all spellbindingly bound together by the big questions it asks about life and fate.

Growing up as best friends in small-town New Hampshire, Jon and Chloe are the only ones who truly understand each other and their intense connection. But just when Jon is ready to confess the depth of his feelings, he's kidnapped by his substitute teacher, a discredited scientist who is obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft and has a plot to save humanity. After four years in captivity, Jon finally escapes, only to discover that he now has an uncontrollable power that endangers anyone he has intense feelings for. He runs away to Providence to protect Chloe while he searches for answers. Across town from Jon, Detective Charles "Eggs" DeBenedictus is fascinated by a series of strange deaths – young, healthy people whose hearts just stop. Convinced these deaths are a series of connected, vigilante killings, he jeopardizes his job and already strained marriage to uncover the truth. With heart, insight and keen observation of human frailty, Kepnes whisks us on a journey through New England and crashes these characters' lives together in the most unexpected ways, exploring the complex relationship between the powerful and the powerless, love and identity, self-preservation and self-destruction, and how the lines are often blurred between the two.

Kepnes is from Cape Cod. Her first novel, You, was shortlisted for a CWA New Blood Award. Her second novel, Hidden Bodies, is a sequel that Booklist describes as "the love child of Holden Caulfield and Patrick Bateman.” Caroline earned a BA in American Civilization at Brown University and worked as a pop culture journalist for Entertainment Weekly and a TV writer for 7th Heaven and The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She now writes full time and lives in Los Angeles.

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