From the bestselling author of Act of God and Guilt by Association comes a novel of rare emotional intensity- a gripping drama of an All-American family with secrets too terrible to reveal. Raised in a large, loving Irish Catholic family, Valerie O'Connor is a sheltered and innocent young woman who comes of age in the 1950s. When, at age 18, she meets and falls deeply in love with Jack Marsh, a... (read more)