I just found out a few minutes ago.Ī soft murmur distracted James, and he glanced at the sleeping form next to him. Nate waited to tell me until they were sure. The voice on the other end of the line was vaguely familiar, but sleep tempted him back into its arms, and the question of who had awakened him seemed ridiculously unimportant. Jarred awake by the shrill voice of the phone, he had answered it instinctively.

'A fast-moving yet thoughtful exploration of family love and the things we do in its name.' - Booklist Read moreįound who? James McCloud mumbled. And as the truth emerges, piece by piece, Billy finds himself amid a swirl of secrets and lies powerful enough to decide his brother's fate, threaten yet another life, and destroy the bonds that still remain. For when James's high school ring is discovered with Daniel's body, he becomes the prime suspect. Time has not healed their differences, but events may drastically change their roles. James was always the golden child, Billy the disappointment. Among them is his brother, Billy, twenty-one, gay, and even more troubled than James remembers. James immediately returns to Cold Falls, New York, to be with the rest of his family. But the evidence leaves no doubt: Daniel was murdered. James always believed his father committed suicide. James's father, Daniel, a police officer, disappeared eight years ago. On the morning James McCloud, a Seattle district attorney, gets a call from his sister, he senses his own long-buried family history is about to be dragged into the light. In this suspenseful and deeply moving novel, Michael Thomas Ford propels us beyond smiling holiday photographs and beloved anecdotes to explore the complex ties within one family-and between two very different brothers whom catastrophe will either unite or divide forever. Every family has a hidden story-even the perfect ones.

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