{"product_id":"the-green-apple-tree-gene-fackler-9781737427223","title":"The Green Apple Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1963, in the rugged heart of Texas Hill Country, three teenage boys roamed wild-pushing boundaries, testing fate, and soaking in the tall tales of weathered old men who'd seen too much. For Thomas, Pete, and Bennett, it was a summer of reckless freedom and fading innocence. But only two of them would grow up to remember it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFast forward to 1986. Thomas Kessler sits alone in a bar, nursing a cold beer and waiting for Pete-now a driven attorney and haunted by an unsolved double murder that shadows their shared past. Bennett vanished without a trace that same summer, and Thomas carries a truth he's never dared to tell... until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith time to kill and ghosts pressing in, Thomas drifts back into memory-back to that mysterious stone house littered with old Colts and Winchesters and whispered legends, the foul-mouthed gas station that offered a crude kind of wisdom, and the bluff overlooking a town full of secrets. As past and present collide, the question looms: how much do we really leave behind, and what never truly lets us go?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gene Fackler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1737427222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781737427223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sweetspire Literature Management\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d","brand":"Gene Fackler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520052506879,"sku":"9781737427223","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_21b0c948-6d88-44e2-ad3a-68a22d554b95.jpg?v=1778740448","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-green-apple-tree-gene-fackler-9781737427223","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}