Product Overview
From the author of Daniel Isnt Talking and Dying Young comes a shatteringnew novel, a page-turner about a sexualrelationship between a grown manand a newly teenaged girl.
June was a young widow with ahopeless crush on Craig Kirtz, a disc jockey at alocal rock station. To her surprise, the two struck up a friendship that seemed headed for something more. But it was Junes thirteen-year-old daughter,Bobbie, whom Craig had wanted all along. Bobbiethought her secret lifethe sex, the drugs, theillicit relationship itselfcould remain safely buriedin the past. But thirty years later, when Bobbiediscovers Craigs attentions to her had been repeated with any number of girls, she returns homewith one purpose in mind: to bring Craig to trial.
Her decision is greeted with mixed feelings. Some people think that bringing charges against someone for a crime committed so many years ago is unjustified. Shes called a middle-aged womanwith a vendetta. Shes accused of waging war against her own family. But the past has a way of revealing itself, and some relationships lie dormant through the years, ready to stir to life at the
slightest provocation.
June remembers things differently from the wayBobbie does. Craig insists he has done nothing wrong. As their traumatic history is relived in the courtroom, Bobbie and June must come to terms with the choices they made and face the truth theyhave long refused to acknowledge. Told with warmthand compassion, this is a moving, deeply absorbing story of a family in crisis.
