2023 Rhody Reader Box by Ink Fish Books
2023 Rhody Reader Box by Ink Fish Books
2023 Rhody Reader Box from Ink Fish Books
Featuring Blood Sisters by local author Vanessa Lillie
The Rhody Reader Box from Ink Fish Books, is a celebration of all things Rhode Island and it’s back for 2023, featuring local author Vanessa Lillie’s thriller Blood Sisters, along with locally made products by Juniper Hill Apothecary and Freya Soapworks, and Indigenous made artwork by Cherokee Copper, Kayla Miller, Gehdi Lynn Wilson, and Trisha Johnson with a portion of the proceeds to support the Tomaquag Museum located in Exeter, Rhode Island.
Preorder your Ink Fish Books custom designed 2023 Rhody Reader Box today. They make a great gift! Boxes will be available for in-store pickup or shipping in the US beginning on October 31.
Choose from one of two Rhody Reader Box editions.
The Fire Edition, includes the following:
1 signed copy of Blood Sisters
1 custom hand-poured, small-batch soy wax candle made exclusively to compliment Blood Sisters, in the scent of sandalwood—made with love in Bristol, Rhode Island, by Juniper Hill Apothecary.
An artisan vegan soap bar made with activated charcoal in a clean citrus scent with an embedded blue, white, and green swirled earth design by Freya Soapworks in Lincoln, Rhode Island.
An authentic modern Native American necklace made by Cherokee Copper, made in their home studio of Oklahoma by Cherokee artists with an exclusive design from the logo of Rhode Island’s Tomaqaug Museum.
A bookmark designed and beaded by Cherokee artists, Kayla Miller and Gehdi Lynn Wilson, inspired by precolonial southeastern woodland tribal art in Cherokee fire colors.
A map to complement your reading of Blood Sisters featuring landmarks of northeastern Oklahoma and tribal nation borders with design work by Trisha Johnson, a tribal member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, and Kelly Austin of Berkley Books.
Your purchase of the Rhody Reader Box supports Indigenous tribes of New England through the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter, Rhode Island.
The Water Edition, includes the following:
Everything in the Fire Edition, plus a copy of each of Lillie’s other bestselling books, Little Voices and For the Best.
Your purchase of the Rhody Reader Box supports the Tomaquag Museum in Providence, Rhode Island. Their mission is to educate everyone on Indigenous cultures of Southern New England through engagement and shared dialogue to reconcile the past and empower present and future generations.
About the Author
Vanessa Lillie is the bestselling author of the thrillers Little Voices, For the Best and coauthor of the Young Rich Widows series. Her forthcoming novel, Blood Sisters, launches a new suspense series and releases October 31, 2023.
About the Book
Blood Sisters
A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is called back to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women…one of them is her sister…
There are secrets in the land.
As an archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker spends her days in Rhode Island trying to protect the land’s Indigenous past, even as she’s escaping her own. While Syd is dedicated to her job, she’s haunted by a night of violence she barely escaped in her Oklahoma hometown fifteen years ago. Even though she swore she’d never go back, the past comes calling.
What happens to the land happens to the women.
When a skull is found near the crime scene of her youth, just as her sister, Emma Lou, disappears, Syd knows she must return to Oklahoma. She refuses to let her sister, or the remains, go ignored as so often happens in cases of missing Native women. But not everyone is glad to have Syd home. The search for Emma Lou puts Syd in the crosshairs of local drug dealers looking to build an empire and vengeful vigilantes policing the abandoned mines, while government officials silence tribal rights.
The truth will be unearthed.
The deeper Syd digs, the more she uncovers about a string of missing Indigenous women cases trailing back decades. To save her sister, she must expose a darkness in town that no one wants to face—not even Syd.
Reviews
“Blood Sisters sets its hooks on page one and then pulls relentlessly and colorfully through buried secrets and rediscovered Native heritage.”
— C. J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Storm Front
“Blood Sisters is a tale with all the twisting fury of a tornado. Set on the complex checkerboard of Indian land in northeastern Oklahoma, it delves deeply and dramatically into the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women. But it also mines the rich territory of family, kinship, love, loyalty, guilt, and regret. Vanessa Lillie is a remarkable and courageous storyteller and an important Native voice. I recommend this book with all my heart and the hope that it will make a difference.”
—William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land
“Bingeworthy. A propulsive story of familial fault lines with as much to say about the dark side of people as the potential for redemption.”
—Caroline Kepnes, New York Times bestselling author of the You series