Fallout
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Her carefully crafted life is about to be demolished.
After a difficult childhood, Samantha Williams craves simplicity: jigsaw puzzles, lectures at the library, and the students she adores in her role as an elementary school art teacher in the dusty farming community of LaCrosse, Washington.
But when an SUV crashes into the building where she teaches, her entire world is upended. Samantha manages to keep the children safe, but her car isn’t so lucky. Oddly, her purse—with her driver’s license, credit cards, and other identification—is missing from the wreckage.
After authorities discover that the driver in the accident was shot seconds before the crash, Samantha quickly becomes entangled in increasingly strange events that have her constantly looking over her shoulder.
Samantha has long tried to forget the tragedy of her past, but the twisting connections she discovers between the murdered driver, a deadly secret government project, and an abandoned town can't be ignored. Those involved are determined to keep these secrets buried, and they’ll use any means necessary to stop Samantha’s search for truth.
Full-length, stand-alone suspense novelAward-winning, bestselling authorIncludes discussion questions for book clubs
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This propulsive thriller from Parks (Woman in Shadow) follows a small-town art instructor who must face her past to stop a murderer. Sam Williams is miraculously unscathed after an SUV crashes into the temporary classroom where she teaches art to elementary schoolers in LaCrosse, Wash. An investigation reveals that the driver of the SUV had been shot immediately before the crash and had worked as an art therapist at Clan Firinn, a secretive rehab facility for "first responders suffering from various forms of PTSD." Mary Thompson, an amateur writer looking into the recent discovery of two skeletons at a nearby construction site owned by Clan Firinn, introduces herself to Sam and the two join forces to get to the bottom of the deaths. The stakes escalate when an SUV forces Sam off the road and into a river, where her prayers to God deliver her to safety. An unexpected development suggests the events might be connected to the deaths of Sam's parents decades ago, leading Sam to return to her childhood home to face her past. Intricate plot threads combine with fast-paced action to exciting effect, and Sam's social awkwardness adds some comic moments of levity. This addictive, twisty mystery will keep readers guessing.
