Vendor
	Writers House Maja Nikolic
Original language
English
Categories
Crime & mystery fiction

QUICKENINGS

JoAnne Tompkins

In a sleepy town in the Pacific Northwest, two teenage boys are found dead in a grisly murder-suicide. Weeks later, a mysterious pregnant girl walks out of the woods and into the lives of the victim’s—and the killer’s—families. In a story that spans the profound depths of tragedy, brutality, and redemption, QUICKENINGS is about human forgiveness, the moral complications of parenting adolescents, and finding a way to move forward after loss.

Isaac is a high-school teacher and devout Quaker who has lost his wife to divorce and his son Daniel to murder—at the hand of Daniel’s best friend, Jonah. Evangeline is a teenage runaway from a broken home, in dire need of both love and shelter. When she appears on Isaac’s property, he’s kind enough to take her in, no questions asked. But Evangeline is counting down the days until Isaac realizes she’s keeping secrets from him—and that she isn’t exactly a stranger to his family, or Jonah’s. The revelations of her past will draw in not only Isaac and Lorrie, Jonah’s struggling mother, but Port Furlong’s luminaries and members of its close-knit Quaker community, all of whom are struggling toward a truth that might bind, or break, them forever.

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Book Published by Riverhead