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Life sometimes offers us seemingly impossible choices. We may want to do the right thing in the right way, but at times the price that those around us will pay for our taking the straight path appears too steep. So we either sit and do nothing, which is also a choice, or we make the tough call and hope and pray that while we may not survive the aftermath of what we do that hopefully the ones we have sacrificed so much to save will be okay in the end. This is the dilemma that Lucy faces in Neufeld's legal thriller about shattered dreams and domestic depravity.
Forrest Spencer, a lawyer who is still reeling from his own recently failed marriage, is shocked to hear of the murder of a family friend by the victim's wife, Lucy, a woman he has known for years and who is also a former lover of his from their college days. Even more disquieting is the fact that while Lucy has asked him to represent her, she refuses neither to fully cooperate with him nor even to share her motive for the murder. Eventually, Forrest and his team manage to piece together the horrific truth that Lucy's husband, Pete, was actually seducing his own young daughter and grooming her to replace her mother. But how will Forrest prove before judge and jury that the option Lucy chose to halt her husband's plans was truly the only one open to her?
In this final book of his trilogy, the author offers a frightening look at how difficult it can be to stop sexual predators in the home. In addition to expert and well-paced plot development, Neufeld is superb at creating believable, sympathetic characters. One can only hope they manage to appear again in future novels.
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