Saving Grace

For twenty-four years, Mary Grace Dobbs has been searching for salvation from a traumatic childhood. After her parents died when she was just eleven, she went to live with her Bible salesman uncle, her wheelchair-bound aunt, and a cousin who tortured and killed small animals. Her school life was just as unhappy as her time at home, and her days were haunted by a bully--until, briefly, a newcomer to town became her best friend. Then the bully and the new friend vanished within days of one another, never to be seen again.Today, Mary Grace is the first female sheriff of her small mountain town, a position that doesn't sit well with some of the less progressive of the citizens. She's the first to hear when a drifter last seen around the time of the disappearance all those years back returns to town, and the first to field the slew of old rumors he brings with him. When another young teen goes missing, those murmurings whip up a frenzy of anger and prejudice, stirring a pot of racial animosity with increasingly violent potential. Struggling to hold everything together and solve the crime--while at the same time fearing for the safety of her own daughter--Mary Grace must reckon with her own dark secrets and confront a terrible truth. In doing so, she'll be forced to face a decision no parent should ever have to make. Set in the remote Ozark hills, where the secrets run as deep as the locals' roots, Saving Grace is a twisty work of psychological suspense with a captivating protagonist at its core.