Summer Session
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Harper Jennings is an Iraq War veteran with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Now a grad student and teaching assistant at Cornell, she is renovating her home with her husband, Hank. Life is rosy until, doing repairs with a pal, Hank falls off the roof.
Flashbacks of war flare as Harper watches the accident. When they fade, she learns that Hank has brain injuries and is almost unable to speak. For treatment, Harper takes him to a prestigious clinic. Her flashbacks subside.
Until, during class, one of her students jumps out the window.
Suddenly, Harper is swept up in suicide, theft, betrayal, conspiracy and murder. And all the victims connect to her. Hank's doctor offers support, but can she trust him? Or anyone?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jones's promising first in a new series introduces Harper Jennings, a Cornell teaching assistant struggling to overcome the post-traumatic stress disorder incurred during her tour of duty in Iraq. Soon after Harper's husband, Hank, takes a serious accidental fall from the roof of their house, one of Harper's students, Graham Reynolds, dies after intentionally jumping from a classroom window. Harper discovers that Graham had been taking an experimental pharmaceutical created at the same medical center where Hank is now undergoing treatment for brain damage. Harper tries to unravel the suicide's connection to a subsequent string of violent incidents, but is sidetracked by resurgent PTSD symptoms and her troubled marriage. Jones (The Borrowed and Blue Murders and three other mysteries featuring art therapist Zoe Hayes) speeds the plot past some dangerously improbable patches to a conclusion that should leave readers both satisfied and eager for the next installment.
