Publisher's Synopsis
"He knew he was going too fast. He tried to straighten back up but couldn't. In desperation he squeezed both hand brakes. The wheels locked. A mighty jerk jolted through his body. The bike pitched forward like a bucking bronco, sending him head first over the handlebars."
Jacoba Dahm's predictable teaching year is turned upside down when one of her fourth graders disappears and is later found dead in the town's park. Her grief is compounded when she learns she's seriously miscalculated the significance of certain classroom events that may have contributed to the youngster's demise. Is she partly to blame for the boy's death?
The Rigby family is struggling to resurface from the devastating loss of Sarah Rigby, wife and mother, in a car crash the previous winter. Dr. Solomon Rigby, already angry at God for allowing this to happen, is pushed to his limits when his son, Jonathan, tells him he wants to become a priest.
Welcome to Grandburg, where a tapestry woven of the past and the present preserves what forever lingers on the edge of memory.
