num_pages: 340
description: "Alice is a precocious eleven-year-old growing up in rural East Texas with one wish on her mind: Get rid of Simon Jester." "Simon is the man who saved her mother from drowning. Simon is her mother's hero, her savior - and her new husband. He's an enigmatic man whose own family, he says, mysteriously drowned." Soon it grows apparent that Simon's family did not drown. Alice and her saintly brother become convinced that Simon intends to poison them. Their mother, Meg, tells her children that they have wild imaginations. Until she comes to kiss them one night and, instead of her usual endearments, whispers a single word: Run.
language: English
title: The Absence of Nectar
titlecomplete: The Absence of Nectar
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Abuse, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Mental Illness, Suspense
ratings_count: 843
places: Texas
publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc