"I devoured Finding Jake. The tension is almost unbearable in this
thriller-cum-character study as layer after layer of a father's soul are
revealed as reflected in the character of his missing son. Utterly
engrossing."--Alice LaPlante, New York Times bestselling author of
Circle of Wives and Turn of Mind
A heart-wrenching but redemptive story of psychological suspense told
from the point of view of the father of a boy who is unaccounted for
during a school shooting, in the vein of Reconstructing Amelia and
Defending Jacob.
While his successful wife goes off to her law office each day, Simon
Connolly takes care of their kids, Jake and Laney. Now that they are in
high school, the angst-ridden father should feel more relaxed, but he
doesn?t. He's seen the statistics, read the headlines. And now, his
darkest fear is coming true. There has been a shooting at school.
Simon races to the rendezvous point, where he's forced to wait. Do they
know who did it? How many victims were there? Why did this happen? One
by one, parents are led out of the room to reunite with their children.
Their numbers dwindle, until Simon is alone.
As his worst nightmare unfolds, and Jake is the only child missing,
Simon begins to obsess over the past, searching for answers, for hope,
for the memory of the boy he raised, for mistakes he must have made, for
the reason everything came to this. Where is Jake? What happened in
those final moments? Is it possible he doesn't really know his son? Or
he knows him better than he thought?
Brilliantly paced, Finding Jake explores these questions in a tense
and emotionally wrenching narrative. Harrowing and heartbreaking,
surprisingly healing and redemptive, Finding Jake is a story of faith
and conviction, strength, courage, and love that will leave readers
questioning their own lives, and those they think they know.
