Winner of the Great Lakes Book Award in Fiction
Published 2006 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Available also in paperback.
ISBN: 978-0-06-056478-0
If your best friend-the one who was always there for you as you struggled to put your life back together after the death of your husband and to parent your two young boys-was just arrested and charged with a terrible crime, where would your loyalty fall?
Sarah Laden faces this very quandary a few days after rescuing her friend's son, a classmate of Sarah's son, from an attempted and purposeful drug overdose. Did taking the boy to the hospital trigger the arrest? Sarah tries to remain open-minded as more and more evidence comes to light against the physician friend and her husband.
When Sarah's older son asks Sarah to take in the boy she saved, Sarah wants to respond because it's the first thing he's asked of her since his father died. Little does she know that the horror of the boy's life threatens her own boys, and that her family was targeted as vulnerable by a most unlikely person.
This is a well-written book that is sometimes difficult to read because of its topic. Every parent should read and prepare against the exterior threat attracted by family trauma. The author writes with compassion and truth about family, what it means, how to heal and forgive, and the great power of family love.
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