Can't Wait Wednesday (272)

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings to spotlight highly anticipated books.  It is based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme which used to be hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

FROM GOODREADS: Michelle and Cliff Stage bought their isolated vacation cabin in the mountains of North Carolina with hopes of repairing their eighteen-year marriage. But when Cliff disappears one night searching for the source of a mysterious light in the woods, Michelle's life will change in unimaginable ways. After the sheriff's department fails to find him, Michelle scrambles down the same dark mountainside alone, the strange, beckoning light her only guide.

What she discovers is a cabin, identical to theirs, housing a life she barely recognizes--and a husband she hardly knows. Cliff is a changed man. Now caring and considerate, no longer a manipulative womanizer, he is also missing a finger. He claims that Cassie, their teenage daughter, is dead, killed in a car accident over a year ago. Michelle knows that's not possible--Cassie had phoned her from Atlanta only hours before. Even when shown Cassie's grave, Michelle refuses to accept she's gone.

Michelle wants her daughter and her life back, and the only clue to what has happened is a man named Pink. A real estate agent and the man who years earlier built Michelle and Cliff's cabin, Pink was rumored to have killed his wife and buried her on the property then vanished never to be seen again. But in Michelle's new reality, Pink and his wife still reside in town and Pink's smile-splashed billboards are everywhere. To get back to the world where her daughter exists, Michelle must unravel the mystery of Pink while questioning her very reality--and her sanity. Haunting, atmospheric, and deeply thought-provoking, The Cabin on Souder Hill questions the very nature of our existence and the choices we make to form it. 

WHY I CAN'T WAIT: This sounds just like the odd little read I always love to get my hands on.  I want to know about  this identical cabin and the man named Pink.  

CASSIUS'S PICK:

FROM GOODREADS: The holidays are swiftly approaching when the Goss family suddenly faces a life-or-death crisis. Setting their differences aside to come together to weather the storm is easier said than done, and the last thing the family needs right now is to add a little lost puppy into mix.

Sometimes, though, the most priceless holiday gifts are the unexpected. And the key to setting things right might just come in the smallest, scrappiest of packages.

A Dog’s Perfect Christmas is a poignant, uplifting Yuletide tale of family members, both two-legged and four-legged, and the ties that bind even when modern life seems determined to pull them apart. This charming tale will make you cry, make you laugh, and open your heart to the true meaning of the holiday season.

WHY CASSIUS CAN'T WAIT:  Last year I got the gift that keeps on giving.  I want to see what happens to the Goss family when the same thing happens to them.  Also, I usually don't wish time away but I'm all for speeding Christmas up if it means the world can get some sort of normalcy back (Look Apollo, I used a new word!)

WHAT BOOK CAN'T YOU WAIT FOR THIS WEEK???