The Witnesses
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
Young lawyer Parker House is on the rise—until his grandfather’s mysterious past puts both of their lives in danger.
Parker House’s secret inheritance is either his greatest blessing . . . or his deadliest curse. The fresh-faced North Carolina attorney shares his German grandfather’s uncanny ability to see future events in his mind’s eye—a gift that has haunted 82-year-old Frank House through decades of trying to erase a murderous wartime past.
While Parker navigates the intrigue and politics of small-town courtroom law, Frank is forced to face his darkest regrets. Then, a big career break for Parker collides with a new love he longs to nurture and the nightmares his grandfather can no longer escape. Sudden peril threatens to shatter not only Parker’s legal prospects but also his life and the lives of those dearest to him.
Two witnesses, two paths, an uncertain future.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In his latest legal novel, Whitlow (A House Divided) brings readers to New Bern, N.C., where Frank House and his grandson, Parker House, wrestle with an uncanny ability to see the future and the turmoil this talent inspires. Frank was a German soldier in WWII who deserted to Switzerland when the responsibility of his gift and the burden of its misuse began to weigh on him. Parker is a lawyer, who is working as an associate at Branham and Camp. Readers meet him as his life is about to change due to the manifestation of his clairvoyant gift, and his first meeting with Layla Donovan, who comes to play an important role in his life. Told through Frank's flashbacks and Parker's seemingly haphazard encounters with ordinary people in the courtroom and local politicians in back rooms, the novel explores what it would really be like if the future could be seen. Whitlow's characters continuously prove that God loves the broken and that faith is a lot more than just showing up to church. When Frank's past catches up to him and he realizes that Parker has inherited the gift, Frank is challenged to find a way to heal the scars of his soul and guide his grandson to a path that honors the gift that God has given them. Whitlow's contemplative novel is a fine rumination on ethics, morality, and free will.
